The losing candidates in this year's Skaneateles Central School District Board of Education election want the state's top education official to disregard the district's response to their attempt to have the results dismissed. Robert Bennett and Joseph Goethe have submitted their reply to the district's answer to an appeal they filed last month with the state education commissioner. The district's board in May certified results showing incumbents Michael Kell (683 votes), Kerry Brogan (682 votes) and newcomer Amanda Nugent (867 votes) were the three winners, followed by Bennett (678) and Goethe (662). Bennett and Goethe claim there were irregularities with absentee ballot counting, voter roll books and voting machine programming, along with confusion regarding how many candidates had to be chosen for a ballot to be accepted.