Any Hope Left For Tedisco?
The absentee ballot counting is finished in Saratoga Co., and it wasn't enough to pull Jim Tedisco (R) into the lead in NY-20. In the NY Board of Election's p.m. update, Scott Murphy (D) leads Tedisco by 86 votes. Saratoga Co.'s tally (672-509 in favor of Tedisco) was only enough to halve Murphy's 168-vote lead from this morning.
That's bad news for Tedisco, as Columbia, Dutchess and Warren Cos. are the only ones left to report absentee ballot tallies, and they all went for Murphy on election night.
An even bigger boon to Murphy may be the nearly 1.2K contested ballots -- including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's (D) -- that have yet to be counted. But they won't be uncounted for long. A judge ruled late today that most of those ballots can be now be included.
Dems believe approximately 60% of those were contested by GOPers, and if they're included, that will undoubtedly increase Murphy's total.
Saratoga Co. may have been Tedisco's last chance to pull ahead, and it wasn't enough to put him over the top. Is there anything left out there that would give him a shot at winning?
(TIM SAHD)
short answer? no.