Tight NY congressional race casts glaring light on the flaws of mail-in voting
Jazz Shaw Posted at 4:33 pm on November 24, 2020
Just in case you thought that all of the elections aside from the Georgia runoffs were behind us, well… they’re not. The counting is still going on in some of the congressional races and one of the tightest ones is in New York’s 22nd district. There, Democratic incumbent Anthony Brindisis is locked in a recount with Republican Claudia Tenney, who previously held the seat before him. The race gap between the two has come down to the point where Tenney is leading by 106 votes and the only ballots left to possibly be considered are the ones that were “set aside†during the initial count due to irregularities. Tenney leads Brindisi by the thinnest of margins, but he could still come back and retain his seat if a lot of these ballots are allowed.
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The problem comes with the way that final determination is being made and irregularities in the way some of the counties originally recorded the votes. Oswego County Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte has taken it upon himself to personally examine each of the remaining ballots and determine if they should be entered into the count. Even leaving aside the question of how even-handed the judge will be, the record-keeping in some of the counties is so bad that they don’t know how many of the ballots may have already been tallied once. (Washington Examiner)
“We have a serious problem on our hands,†said Oswego County Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte, who is ruling which ballots to admit or reject in the tight race between Republican former Rep. Claudia Tenney and current Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi.
Yes, he does have a serious problem, one entirely predictable when mail-in voting is prevalent.
Tenney was first elected to the seat from New York’s 22nd Congressional District, upstate, in 2016, but Brindisi ousted her in 2018 by a margin of less than 2%. After the initial, full count in this year’s rematch finally was completed, Tenney led by a mere 106 votes — but several thousand absentee ballots remained that had been disputed by one side or the other, many of them having been rejected as invalid by the bipartisan election board. DelConte ruled on Nov. 20 that he should directly examine each of the disputed ballots, and he began doing so on Monday.
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