And the current leader in NY-20 is…nobody. It’s a tie!
The Schenectady Daily Gazette reports that the numbers right now, as the counties go through the standard procedure of proofreading their spreadsheets, are 77,225 votes for Democrat Scott Murphy, to 77,225 votes for Republican Jim Tedisco.
Murphy led by 65 votes on election night, then 25 votes Wednesday afternoon, and Tedisco might have taken a small lead yesterday. The numbers are still in flux, as some counties are still checking everything out — who knows, these numbers could even be out of date right now, minutes after it was reported.
Also, these numbers do not include even one absentee ballot, as those haven’t been counted yet — and as I reported yesterday, those appear to be roughly tied, as well.
In other news, Jim Tedisco has resigned his position as state Assembly minority leader, officially in order to focus on his transition to Congress in case he has won. But the Albany Times-Union reported that there was another reason — if he hadn’t stepped down, he was on the verge of facing a no-confidence vote from his caucus.
Late Update: The state Board of Elections has now begun posting the unofficial results online — which New York doesn’t usually do, by the way. But for this race, they’re making an exception.
Late Late Update: And in just a few minutes the tie was broken, with Murphy taking the lead — for now — with a pickup of 198 votes in a single county.
