The only figure I remember being referenced earlier were approximately 4800 absentee votes that were returned out of the over 10200 mailed out for the district wide.
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Which would mean Hoffman has basically no chance. Can you confirm this?
Found this:
“there are at least 5,400 absentee ballots returned that have not been counted. That process starts Tuesday...”
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20091112/BLOGS09/911129996
“Jefferson County, home of Fort Drum and the Army’s 10th Mountain Division, distributed 2,299 absentee ballots for the special election. As of this week, 1,303 had been returned but not counted, Eaton said. He said the county will begin counting the absentee ballots earyl next week.
Conklin, of the state Board of Elections, said officials did not have updated absentee ballot totals from the other counties...”
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/its_not_over_recanvassing_shows_ny23_race.html