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Tedisco rep: County is make or break
Murphy currently leading Tedisco
By Jamie Larson
COLUMBIA COUNTY — The counting of Columbia County absentee ballots in the special 20th Congressional District race to fill Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s vacated seat in the House of Representatives continued Thursday. By the end of the day, Democrat Scott Murphy had increased his lead in mail-in ballots over Republican Jim Tedisco to 57 overall.
According to The Associated Press, Murphy now leads Tedisco by a total of eight votes in the latest count of the too-close-to-call election.
Murphy picked up 40 votes in Columbia County Thursday, to Tedisco’s 24, as workers slowly analyzed votes at the 401 State St. County Office Building in Hudson. With 16 election districts’ ballots recorded over two days, from five towns, Murphy has collected 92 votes and Tedisco has gained a total of 35.
Forty-nine votes were challenged by campaign lawyers and six votes were rendered void Thursday. Ninety-three votes have been challenged in total. Information was not provided on how many challenges came from each campaign. A total of nine votes have been voided so far.
Washington attorney and former President Reagan White House counsel David Nolan has been acting as a volunteer attorney for the Tedisco campaign, and says though the numbers are currently going in Murphy’s favor, the Democrat has not widened the gap enough in the county to pull out a victory in the entire 20th District.
“How I see it, is that Columbia County is make or break,” Nolan said Thursday night. “I think we are over the top and have weathered the storm.”
Nolan says the republicans have been making most of the challenges over the past two days and the majority have been related to ballots from people who are registered to vote in Columbia County but whose driver’s licenses state that they live in New York City.
Nolan said it is his estimation that Murphy will need to carry 66 to 75 percent of the vote in Columbia County to top Tedisco district-wide.
Spokesman for the Murphy campaign Ryan Rudominer was asked to respond to each of Nolan’s claims, to which he said, “We are pleased with the count so far and are confident that once all the absentee ballots are counted, Scott Murphy will be elected to represent the people of the 20th Congressional District.”
Forty-two election districts still need to be counted, including Hudson’s, and the Board of Elections has already booked a room for the task at 401 State St. for every day next week.
By Jamie Larson
COLUMBIA COUNTY — The counting of Columbia County absentee ballots in the special 20th Congressional District race to fill Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s vacated seat in the House of Representatives continued Thursday. By the end of the day, Democrat Scott Murphy had increased his lead in mail-in ballots over Republican Jim Tedisco to 57 overall.
According to The Associated Press, Murphy now leads Tedisco by a total of eight votes in the latest count of the too-close-to-call election.
Murphy picked up 40 votes in Columbia County Thursday, to Tedisco’s 24, as workers slowly analyzed votes at the 401 State St. County Office Building in Hudson. With 16 election districts’ ballots recorded over two days, from five towns, Murphy has collected 92 votes and Tedisco has gained a total of 35.
Forty-nine votes were challenged by campaign lawyers and six votes were rendered void Thursday. Ninety-three votes have been challenged in total. Information was not provided on how many challenges came from each campaign. A total of nine votes have been voided so far.
Washington attorney and former President Reagan White House counsel David Nolan has been acting as a volunteer attorney for the Tedisco campaign, and says though the numbers are currently going in Murphy’s favor, the Democrat has not widened the gap enough in the county to pull out a victory in the entire 20th District.
“How I see it, is that Columbia County is make or break,” Nolan said Thursday night. “I think we are over the top and have weathered the storm.”
Nolan says the republicans have been making most of the challenges over the past two days and the majority have been related to ballots from people who are registered to vote in Columbia County but whose driver’s licenses state that they live in New York City.
Nolan said it is his estimation that Murphy will need to carry 66 to 75 percent of the vote in Columbia County to top Tedisco district-wide.
Spokesman for the Murphy campaign Ryan Rudominer was asked to respond to each of Nolan’s claims, to which he said, “We are pleased with the count so far and are confident that once all the absentee ballots are counted, Scott Murphy will be elected to represent the people of the 20th Congressional District.”
Forty-two election districts still need to be counted, including Hudson’s, and the Board of Elections has already booked a room for the task at 401 State St. for every day next week.
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