I’ve heard of close races:
The state board’s Web site posted the latest unofficial results Friday afternoon, showing Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy with 77,225 votes each — a political anomaly about as rare as a two-headed calf. Unofficial results election night gave Murphy about a 60-vote lead.
Friday’s tally almost certainly won’t stand because of the ongoing recanvass of the machines used on Election Day. While many smaller counties had completed the task, larger ones such as Saratoga County were still midway through the process…
Tedisco’s next job — rank-and-file assemblyman or rank-and-file member of Congress — will almost certainly be determined by the more than 10,000 absentee ballots sent out by county elections boards. The last of the returned ballots, including votes from military and overseas denizens of the 20th District, can arrive no later than April 13 to be counted.
Curiouser and curiouser.
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It's time to hit the graveyards
johnt Saturday, April 4th at 1:55PM EST (link)You get to live two lives, the first in ordinary human fashion, the second as a deceased but perpetual Democrat voter, a kind of hell you might say.
If the Repub wins though expect the gnashing of teeth and screams in the night over, yes, stolen elections.
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So have they brought up the name "Diebold" yet? n/t
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 1:58PM EST (link).
Is Saratoga county a Democratic stronghold?
civil truth (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 2:01PM EST (link)If so, I’m expecting all sorts of new numbers coming off the back of the voting machines. Hopefully we got some watchers around and good protective seals to prevent resetting the numbers to “improve” the voting numbers,
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Saratoga is not a dem stronghold
antisocial (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 2:45PM EST (link)I think Jim is going to make it. Maybe by a couple of hundred votes. If we assume absentees vote 80% along party lines Scott is cooked.
I will be surprised if it turns out otherwise.
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
So what happens in the case of a tie?
shooflyguy68 Saturday, April 4th at 3:29PM EST (link)Is there a revote or does this get settled by the legislature or something as random as a coin flip?
Run off
Brad Smith (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 7:03PM EST (link)New York uses a run-off in the unlikely event of a tie. Some local races in NY can be decided by drawing straws, but not a congressional race.
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Heads we win, tails you lose
Robert A. Hahn (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 6:48PM EST (link)I thought the rule was that the Republican has to get 10,000 more votes than the Democrat. Otherwise there is a recount and the Democrat wins.
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The election board is
Wayne (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 8:43PM EST (link)waiting for the ACORN volunteers to show up to count the votes. 10,000 won’t be enough when they start counting.
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The odds of a exact tie
carlsbadd Saturday, April 4th at 10:24PM EST (link)If you flip a coin and it end up staning on it’s rim, is about the same odds of having a exact tie in the numbers of votes counted so far