Nothing to get giddy over just yet since the Democrats can certainly find 25 dead people in no time to overtake
this lead.
Republican Jim Tedisco is leading Democrat Scott Murphy by 24 votes in the latest count of a too-close-to-call special congressional election in New York state.
The state Board of Elections reports Thursday that unofficial vote counts show Tedisco leads Murphy 77,201 to 77,177. The lead has fluctuated since the March 31 election in the 20th Congressional District.
For the first time the totals include some of the absentee ballots expected to decide the election. Dutchess, Columbia and Greene counties have submitted their unofficial absentee results.
Yesterday Tedisco's lead was reported as 17 votes.
Absentee ballots are expected to decide the election. About 6,760 have been returned to date; close to half of those came from registered Republicans.
Military and overseas absentee ballots are still scheduled to be counted on April 14.
Both the Tedisco and Murphy campaigns have hired attorneys to prepare for legal actions that will likely occur after all ballots are counted and a winner is declared. Tedisco is an assemblyman; Murphy is a venture capitalist.
Ordinarily venture capitalists would be tarred and feathered as greedy oppressors of the little people, but it's OK to be one when you're a Democrat.
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