The latest official score in the NY-20 special election how has Democratic candidate Scott Murphy ahead of Republican Jim Tedisco by 25 votes, or 0.016%, as the absentees continue to be counted.
Murphy led by 35 on Friday, but the lead has now been cut slightly as the absentee votes were counted in the Tedisco stronghold of Greene County. However, it should be noted that while Tedisco won the absentee ballots here by 52.6%-47.4%, he won the Election Night vote here by 55.6%-44.4% — so Murphy in fact performed above the baseline here, as he has in most of the other counties that have reported their absentees so far.
We’re all still waiting for the Tedisco stronghold of Saratoga County and the Murphy bastion of Washington County to start reporting their absentees, as well as more votes from pro-Murphy Warren County, which just began counting some precincts on Friday, plus the military and overseas ballots that are due back in the mail today under an extended deadline. And as I’ve previously reported, the number is currently distorted by ballot challenges that appear to have kept a disproportionate number of Murphy votes out of the count. We’ll see what happens.
