NYS is home to 50% of all the election litigation in the USA because ot its arcane and confusing election laws. The result of all of this litigation is that, in every close election in NYS, the machines are impounded for a hand recount. The voting machines are glorified adding machines. In the recount, representatives of both candidates and parties appear at the place where the machines are impounded and stand behind the Bd of Election counters to verify the count. Sometimes in close elections, the machines were read incorrectly on election night and when recounted and checked, the totals sometimes change. Also as a result of the Election Law and litigation, there are standard rules for the verification of Absentee Ballots, how they are opened and how they are counted. So, in NY, this is standard procedure done by experts on both sides. There is no room for shenanigans. Any dispute over an Absentee Ballot is decided a ballot by ballot basis before they are opened.

If you want to determine who will win, find out where the people who cast Absentee Ballots lived, whether in Columbia County or another, determine the number of ballots in each county and then use the ratio for the winning candidate to determine how many more votes will be gained. For example, if Mr. Tedesco won Schenectady by 54% and there are 1000 absentee ballots, you can safely assume that Mr. Tedesco will get 540 to Mr. Murphy’s 460 for a surplus of 80 votes. Check it out. You’ll see it works.

For the mean time, let us be patient and wait. I really feel that something good will come out in the end.

When the Dems fall, they will never recover anymore. America will forever cling to its conservative principles.

Now if we could find a way to stop voter registration fraud.

Because we can be taught.

However, we need to learn that when wen nominate people exterior image comes off on many voters; we learned it with Obama and now Murphy.

I am Italian so I can say this Tedisco came off very Soprano’s while Murphy came off as the sweet, charming, young looking guy with nice family. Imagery is important!

Special elections are almost always governed by party faithful, so NY-20 looks to have an equal number of staunch Dems and GOP. The real problem is that the types that don’t pay attention are not connecting in their minds that economic pain is being brought on by the fiscal irresponsibility in DC. Or they think that the actions in DC are going to actually help, and are willing to give up liberty for a safety net.

Jonah Goldberg said something pretty profound a few months ago, “The voters need to learn that government can’t love them”. The voters in NY-20 that didn’t bother to turn out haven’t yet learned that lesson.

This is such a leftward state, frankly, that the most Republican guy I know (aside from myself ) is a registered Libertarian.

Incumbent is D.

Obama won by 3+!

I have never commented on few NY-20 diaries here at RS (including a very good one by Caleb) since I find the subject to be another meme by the left, just like the Limbaugh thing.

Of course, we need to support all Rs running for election bids. But to buy the talking point of the Ds and the MSMs that “NY-20 special election is Test of Obama’s governance” is somewhat phony.

The Real 1st Test Against Obama shall be the APRIL 15 TEA PARTY. Please note that it’s just the First Test. There will be more to come, believe me.

What we should realize is this:

We need to dictate our own winning issues…. instead of just riding on the issues being sold by the Ds.

The Democrats also pumped the district full of money, and Tedisco slipped up on the Stimulus debate.

Hell, if anything should signal a “Leftward turn” it’s the fact that the Democrats won a seat in Idaho.

I don’t know the details about how he and others went after Murphy, but I suspect that was bungled too.

I figured turnout would overcome the polling, but these days true blue Republicans still don’t have any compelling reason to come out.

The problem right now is that virtually every Republican politicians out there is terrible.

None of us are going show up at the polls if all we’re going to get is worthless Orrin Hatch- or Lindsay Graham-types, or Thad McCotters begging for GM handouts, or the House Republicans who voted for a Bill of Attainder on AIG execs salaries and then offered up an unserious alternate budget.

The national Republicans simply do not get it (still!) and will continue to lose elections, even to Communist/Fascist Dems until they do.

I’m starting to wonder if redress through the political process is a dead end. A few more candidates like Tedesco, and we may have our answer…