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3 November 2026 · unofficial
Two town council seats were decided on 3 November 2026 — and their winners are not yet in this record. The seats of President Kauffman and Member Short expire 31 December 2026, and New Carlisle Town Council Member, At Large (vote for two) stood on the ballot: Dan Caruso (D), Marcy L. Kauffman (D), and Marcellus (Marcel) Lebbin (R), on the Indiana Election Division's candidate-list export of 22 September 2026 as carried by Vote Book's county ballot page and the South Bend Tribune's candidate guide of 30 October 2026. Short was not a candidate. The road to that ballot ran through a ballot-access fight the Tribune followed: the county Democratic Party sued the Election Board and Clerk Amy Rolfes after four Democratic candidates — Caruso and Kauffman among them — were removed over CAN-31 forms; the board voted 2–1 on 21 August 2026 to uphold the challenges, the candidates were reappointed and refiled on 28 August, the board voted 2–1 on 3 September to accept ballot proofs without them, and the certified ballots of 4 September still omitted them. Both men and Kauffman stand on the Tribune's final candidate list of 30 October; the suit's disposition was not found. The winners of the two seats were not reached — no unofficial return for the town race was published in the sources read — and they stand as this section's head named gap: the settler is the St. Joseph County Clerk's November 2026 precinct summary report, or the County Election Board's certification. Whoever they are, they take their seats 1 January 2027, and until certification they print here as what they are: unseated. The town's next regular municipal cycle follows in 2027 for the seats whose terms run 2024–2027, and for the clerk-treasurer.