The race for Colonie Town Supervisor is still too close to call. Incumbent Paula Mahan leads Denise Sheehan by just a couple hundred votes. More than 1,000 absentee ballots will now have to be counted. Erin Connolly has the latest.

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COLONIE, N.Y. -- "We're in a good place," said Colonie Town Supervisor Paula Mahan. I'm happy to be here and happy to have another term."

The race for Colonie Town Supervisor lives on. While Democratic incumbent Paula Mahan declared victory Election Night, her opponent, Republican Denise Sheehan, is not ready to concede.

Sheehan said, "We fought really hard, and that's why we want to make sure every vote is counted."

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, just 296 votes separate Mahan and Sheehan. Mahan has the edge numbers-wise, but more than 1,200 absentee ballots will have to be counted before the outcome is official.

Sheehan said, "We all want it to be resolved as quickly as it can but do it in a way that assures everyone's voices are heard."

And this is somewhat familiar territory for Mahan. When she upset then-Town Supervisor Mary Brizzell in 2007, the race was so tight, absentee ballots were also counted.

Mahan said, "The first time around it was so historical because it had been almost 100 years as a one-party rule."

But this year's Mahan-Sheehan matchup seemed to gain a whole lot of attention, arguably because it was one of the more contentious races in the area.

"I think this was the nastiest campaign I've seen in my life," Mahan said.

"We've been focused on getting facts to people about the way decisions are being made and about the real fiscal state of this town," Sheehan said. "I stand by everything we did in this campaign. "

Mahan, for her part, said she's ready to focus on next year's proposed budget and keep moving Colonie in the right fiscal direction.

Mahan said, "My goal was always to leave the town in a much better condition than I got it and make a difference."

Now it's just a waiting game to find out if the historically red community chooses Mahan to serve a third term.