New York Congressional District Rep. Anthony Brindisi took a lead by fourteen votes over his Republican challenger Claudia Tenney.
Brindisi is ahead by 0.00004%.
The next hearing will likely take place on January 4.
Tenney led by 19 votes for a while.
I don’t know how Justice Scott DelConte has kept sane throughout this process. Tenney insisted dead people voted, but DelConte reminded her:
“It’s perfectly normal when you have about 60k absentee votes that someone may die between the time they put their absentee ballot in the mail and election day.”
I mean, duh.
Patrick Lohmann at Syracuse.com has the end-of-day status:
Incumbent Anthony Brindisi got a couple small wins in the latest day of a courtroom battle that will determine the winner of the 22nd Congressional District race, but the contest is still far from over 50 days after Election Day.Brindisi (D) has a 14-vote lead over challenger Claudia Tenney (R) after several hundred affidavit ballots from Oneida County were finally tabulated this week. The new counts from Oneida County put Brindisi at 155,625 votes to Tenney’s 155,611, which amounts to a .00004 percent lead for Brindisi.And a judge ruled that about 120 absentee ballots from Madison County would remain in the unofficial vote totals despite Tenney’s attorneys’ efforts to toss them out. Brindisi’s attorneys wanted those votes to remain in the count.But the number is certain to change, and Tenney could very well re-claim the lead, as more ballots from Oneida County are reviewed and then counted. And a judge will still have the final say in whether those ballots will be official when the parties meet again in court early next year.The lead has changed several times. Tenney started the week up 19 votes, and yesterday the margin narrowed to three to five votes.Also, a Tenney campaign spokesman said the disputed Oneida County votes came from Utica and Rome, two urban areas he said would favor Brindisi.
Remember yesterday? It was all about Madison County officials holding absentee ballots overnight in a jail cell and timestamping them on November 4.
Madison County Board of Elections Commissioner Mary Egger said again that they received the ballots before November 3 (election day) and timestamped them on November 4 when they took them out of the cell.
DelConte ordered that “119 ballots would need to be corrected based on the timestamp.” A sheriff for Madison County picked up the ballots and returned them to the board of elections.
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