A 19-year-old who recently graduated high school defeated an incumbent candidate for a school board in New Jersey on Tuesday, telling local media that he believes he won because of the school board’s COVID-19-related school lockdowns. Nicholas Seppy, a 2020 graduate from Egg Harbor Township High School, defeated incumbent school board member Terre Alabarda by 17 percentage points.  With 100 percent of precincts reporting as of Wednesday, Seppy had obtained 4,042 votes to Alabarda’s 2,830. “I aspire to set a positive example for our district. [Egg Harbor Township] shall have an excellent reputation, in both our standard of education and our efficient process of our budget,” he wrote on Instagram. “I would like to thank all who have supported me over these past two years, without you none of this would have ever been possible.” But Seppy told The College Fix that he believes the school lockdowns propelled him to victory, saying …