Murphy’s Lead Now 264 Votes In NY-20

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The latest score in the NY-20 special election shows Democratic candidate Scott Murphy ahead of Republican Jim Tedisco by 264 votes, as more absentee ballots were tallied in the Murphy strongholds of Columbia and Warren Counties.

In the absentee ballots counted so far, Murphy’s percentage of the vote has been better for most counties than his Election Night totals were on a county by county basis. The only exceptions have been Saratoga County, the single largest county and a Tedisco stronghold, and Otsego County, which only cast about two percent of the total absentees. But the overall trend elsewhere has more than outweighed those two.

There are still over 1,200 absentee ballot envelopes that have been set aside as a result of challenges by the campaigns, pending court proceedings on Monday. But a key ruling by the judge presiding over this case made it likely that the vast majority of these challenges will be overruled, and the ballots will be opened and counted.

It appears that more of these challenges came from the Tedisco camp and from Murphy — for example, the numbers from Columbia County show about 200 more challenges from Tedisco than from Murphy — which would mean that Murphy stands to gain more votes when the ballots are counted. Indeed, The Hill is already pronouncing that Murphy is headed to a likely win here.

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