Posted on 11/05/2010 8:09:08 PM PDT by Chet 99
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 11/5/10 8:34 PM EDT
Another New York House race was suddenly back in play amid ongoing vote-counting today, as a recanvass of the ballot machines erased a 3,400-vote deficit for Republican Randy Altschuler in New York's 1st District and vaulted him nearly 400 ballots over Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop.
It's the second House race in New York in a week in which a large deficit was suddenly reversed as new totals came in, or as the machines were gone over again. Altschuler, a self-funding businessman who ran on a fusion ticket of both the Republican and Conservative Party lines, is now up 392 votes, his campaign spokesman Rob Ryan confirmed.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44769.html#ixzz14T256LY3
More likely in the trunk of a pink pimpmobile.
And thanks a PANTLOAD to all the ‘discouragement trolls’ who whined about how Paladino could not win, demoralizing the troops when there were Republican STATE SENATE SEATS up for grabs
You bring up a god point
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Since this was electronic, why did some areas ‘report last’
At 9 PM the polls close and all precintcs should immediately upload.
IT should take SECONDS to have the machine totals
They should re-canvass all of the machines in NY.
Article from NY Newsday:
Altschuler leads Bishop after voting machine re-canvass
November 5, 2010 10:51 PM By JAMES T. MADORE
In the close House race on the East End, Republican Randy Altschuler moved ahead of incumbent Rep. Tim Bishop Friday after a re-canvass of voting machines.
Altschuler leads Bishop, a Democrat, by about 400 votes, both campaigns said, citing data from the Suffolk County Board of Elections. That represents a swing of almost 4,000 votes because Bishop was ahead by 3,461 earlier this week. A senior elections official, who requested anonymity, confirmed the numbers.
Still to be counted are absentee ballots. Of 13,000 issued, 9,901 have been returned, including 3,611 from registered Democrats, 3,953 from Republicans and the rest from either minor party members or the unaffiliated.
Democratic elections Commissioner Anita Katz declined to comment due to pending litigation involving the House race. GOP commissioner Wayne Rogers declined to comment because he was dining with his family, adding he would discuss the matter Monday in working hours.
Bishop aide Jon Schneider said, “there was a wild miscount of the ballots [on election night] . . . we intend to get to the bottom of it.”
Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said, “Today’s turn of events reaffirms what we said on election night - this race is far from over.”
The House race is one of several that remain too close to call. All appear to have been affected by this year’s new voting system, where paper ballots and optical scanners replaced the old lever-voting machines.
Elections experts speculated the large swing in the Bishop-Altschuler vote tally may be because inspectors misread printouts from the scanners and relayed the incorrect information to the board on Tuesday night.
The reaction from party leaders was mixed. Edward Walsh, Suffolk Conservative chairman and an early Altschuler backer, said, “We’re back in the game.”
Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer said, “We’re back in a situation where we’re going to have to count every single vote” by hand.
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