Posted on 05/24/2011 5:53:53 PM PDT by mandaladon
Apparently anticipating a tight race, Republican Jane Corwin took the first step toward a recount by getting a court order from the New York Supreme Court preventing a certification of a winner in the special election in New York’s 26th district, taking place today, until a show-cause hearing is held before a judge later this week, the Buffalo News reports.
The order was signed by State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia, following a petition filed by Corwin on Monday. The show-cause hearing would be on Thursday, at the earliest.
Until that court hearing, “the judge also impounded all voting equipment and enjoined the canvass of paper ballots ‘except as directed by this court’ and ‘temporarily enjoined and restrained from certifying’ the winner,” says the Buffalo News.
The move is a first step toward a recount, according to New York based Republican political consultant. It will “secure all the machines and paper and ballots this evening” which “preserves the security – the chain of evidence, for lack of a better term.”
That means that if the race is close after the election night results, and still close following a full canvass after that, then it will go to the show-cause hearing as the first step toward a possible recount. If the race is not close enough after the initial results and canvass, then Corwin’s lawyer will likely withdraw the petition for a show-cause hearing.
In a released statement, the Corwin campaign said filing the petition was not an unusual step.
“We have anticipated a very close election from the start, and the action taken today is standard procedure and very typical in close campaigns. Our campaign’s goal is to ensure that every legal vote cast is properly counted accurately and fairly,” the statement read.
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The FAKE “Tea Party” candidate?
That’s no tea party candidate. That’s a Dem in conservative clothing.
For results: http://www.buffalonews.com/
TRANSLATION: The Dem is naturally going to cheat, so better get in line to protect the process now.
Polls are now closed and the counting begins. This will be interesting.
Link above to follow results.
It doesn’t look promising:
.S. House - District 26 - Special General
May 24, 2011 - 09:53PM ET
New York - 415 of 627 Precincts Reporting - 66%
Name Vote %
Hochul , Kathy 48%
Corwin , Jane 43%
Davis , Jack 8%
Murphy , Ian 1%
We lost.
Here’s the latest vote:
County Precincts
Total 443/627
Kathy Hochul (Dem) 37,157 48%
Jane Corwin (GOP) 32,591 42%
I. Murphy (Grn) 833 1%
J. Davis (TEA) 6,384 8%
The Faux “TEA Party” candidate tipped it. To Jack Davis, the term “teabagger” is accurate.
“We lost.”
It certainly looks that way.
To have the Democrat get 48% of the vote in this district is insane.
Unless the 30% remaining is all outside of Erie and Niagara Counties, Corwin can’t possibly catch up.
Too bad.
That seems like a really low voter turnout (even for a special).
In 2010, Lee won 73% to 26% over Fedele.
Total vote count for that election was almost 206,000. 151,000+ voted for Lee.
This election won’t even break 100,000. Looks like the R’s stayed home big time.
Lee got 73% in 2010.
“Unless the 30% remaining is all outside of Erie and Niagara Counties, Corwin can’t possibly catch up.”
Almost all of Erie County has reported, which Hochul won comforably. All of Monroe, Livingston, Niagara, and Orleans Counties have reported, going for Corwin but by smaller margins than Hochul carried Erie. None of Genesee County has reported, I don’t know what that means.
Hochul won big in Erie and Niagara Counties; Corwin won not quite as big in the rest of the district (Corwin would have won bigger margins there had Davis not gotten over 10% of the vote outside of Erie). There were more votes in Erie + Niagara than in the rest of the district, so Hochul won by around 4% districtwide (Corwin may cut it to 3% when all votes are in).
Now this district will almost certainly be eliminated in redistricting.
They'll cut a D seat and an R seat right? If this counts as the R seat then I'm fine with that. Let's see Hochel lose a primary to Louise Slaughter.
Here’s the most recent. Corwin has narrowed the gap a bit:
U.S. House - District 26 - Special General
County Precincts
Total 607/627
Kathy Hochul (Dem) 48,530 47%
Jane Corwin (GOP) 43,836 43%
I. Murphy (Grn) 1,130 1%
J. Davis (TEA) 9,495 9%
Or Higgins, whatever.
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