New York’s 22nd Congressional District will begin the next session without a representative because the election is still a mess.
First, it was sticky notes. Now, it’s about time stamps on ballots stored in a jail cell.
You cannot make up this stuff!
Here’s some catch-up information before I get to the juicy part.
WBNG12 News reporter Ricky Sayer tweeted on Monday night:
Also on Monday, Republican challenger Claudia Tenney expanded her lead from 12 to 19 votes “after three counties reported corrected vote totals.”
Guys. This is insane. It took a month, yes a month, for one ballot to make it to Chenango County from the Bronx Board of Elections. One. Month.
Justice DelConte found affidavit ballots from Madison County timestamped November 4th.
The election took place on November 3rd.
(All the quotes are in tweets I embedded below the text)
Madison County Board of Election Commissioner Mary Egger told the justice that “they hold the ballots overnight in a prison cell.” They then timestamp the ballots the next day.
Egger swore to Justice DelConte that they received the ballots on time.
But Justice DelConte told Egger “there are votes where a voter says a vote was timestamped the day before they turned it in.”
Justice DelConte asked Egger, “Are you telling me your timestamps don’t mean what they say?”
Egger admitted, “For the most part yes.”
Then Egger said “for the most part affidavit ballots are stamped on the day they come in.”
So they got them on November 4? What is going on?!?!?!
Sticky notes make a return, too!
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