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GILLIBRAND'S VOTE NOT YET COUNTED

Carole Osterink

ccSCOOP Editor

04-02-09 - With difference between the votes for Murphy and Tedisco down to a margin of just 25 and a reported 10,000 or so absentee ballots issued in the district and still to be received and counted, the outcome of the special election in the 20th Congressional District will be decided by absentee ballots. While everyone waits for the April 13 deadline for the return of absentee ballots and the count—overseen by a phalanx of election law attorneys from both parties—there is lots of speculation about how those absentee ballots will go.

In Columbia County, 1,407 absentee ballots reportedly were requested and issued: 677 to registered Democrats; 366 to registered Republicans; 34 to Independence Party members; 24 to Conservative Party members; and 290 to NOPs (no official party).

 

 

We've heard the conventional wisdom about how military absentees favor Republican candidates and theories that NOPs in Columbia County may lean blue, but despite the theories and analysis, we won't know the outcome of the election until after April 13. But we can be pretty sure that one of those absentee ballots from Columbia County went to Scott Murphy.

ccSCOOP learned this morning that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who, when she votes in person votes at the Becraft Pumper Station on County Route 14 in Greenport, voted absentee in the special election. Gillibrand's ballot is among all the other paper ballots that have been impounded.

 
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