Eric Kleefeld has been reporting for us on the GOP’s aggressive challenge to the validity of absentee ballots in the razor-thin election in the NY-20. The GOP’s claims — untested thus far by a court — is that the ballots in question were cast by people who actually live in New York City but keep a second home upstate.
But now comes word that the GOP has challenged the absentee ballot cast by Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), who held this seat until she was appointed to replace Hillary Clinton.
The grounds for the challenge, which sound specious on their face, was that Gillibrand was in the county on Election Day and therefore should not have been allowed to vote absentee.
