The polls just closed in NY-20 about 15 minutes ago. We’re updating the results as they come in in our scoreboard to the lower right.
9:42 … As you can see this thing is as close as it can be at the moment. We’re getting some ward by ward data that offer some very mild encouragement for the Dems. But basically it looks like down at the ward level it’s about as close as the top lines.
9:54 … Down in the trenches still looking about the same, from what we can see.
9:57 … Awfully close. But that thousand-or-so vote margin is looking pretty durable for Tedisco. And we’re under 20% of the vote left to count.
10:02 … Real close. But the majority of the votes still out seem to be in Tedisco country.
10:09 … Or maybe not. Seems Saratoga’s basically in now and there’s still votes to be counted in Columbia county. So this ain’t over.
10:12 … We’re hearing that the votes are now fully in in Columbia county, which hasn’t yet been reported by the AP. And the numbers show a substantial Murphy pick up. We’re being told it’s a pick up of around 1400 by Murphy.
10:15 … Well, as you can see the AP numbers now have Murphy down by only 30 votes. And we think there are still more net murphy votes coming from Columbia.
10:17 … Murphy now ahead of Tedisco by 252 votes.
10:23 … Murphy now up by 81 votes.
10:24 … Okay, pretty clear at this point that this is going to come down to the absentee ballots. About their absentee ballot operation, a GOP source tells us, “Ours is good, but I assume theirs is too.”
10:30 … We’re checking with the board of election now to see what the schedule is for counting the absentee ballots.
