Yet More on NY-23

So it’s looking like Bill Owens will end tonight with a few thousand vote margin on Doug Hoffman. But that may not be the end of the story. There are ten-thousand or so absentee ballots — which seem to come disproportionately from Owens counties. But on top of that there was apparently some sort of mechanical breakdown of voting machines in Fulton County, which leans Republican. And they started using paper ballots, which almost certainly won’t be counted tonight. So it looks good for Owens. But there are enough ballots floating around that we may not know the final result tonight.