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Date Posted: 14:17:03 04/01/09 Wed
Author: Cody Hill
Subject: Give it up Tedisco!

Scott Murphy will make upstate NY proud with his centrist philosopy in the U.S. House, so please don't let the GOP bosses tell you to "hang in there like Coleman" and try to litigate yourself into Congress.

Special election comes down to absentee votes

After a frenzied, bruising special election, a New York congressional race that became linked to President Barack Obama's economic recovery efforts won't be decided for at least two more weeks.

Democrat Scott Murphy led Republican Jim Tedisco for the 20th Congressional District seat by a scant 65 votes out of more than 154,000 cast Tuesday.

The candidates were running to replace Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Senate, in a race widely viewed as the first electoral test of Obama's popularity and his economic policy.

After the count of machine votes in 610 voting precincts spread over the mostly rural, 10-county district, the unofficial count was 77,344 for Murphy to 77,279 for Tedisco. That puts the focus on the more than 10,000 absentee ballots mailed to voters who are registered in the district but were unable to vote in person on Tuesday.

It can be a laborious process to count all the paper ballots and those being mailed from overseas aren't due in New York until April 13. A lawsuit filed by state Republicans Tuesday night required all ballots to be impounded to ensure accuracy. It's not an unusual step in close elections.

Of the ballots mailed out, nearly 6,000 were returned by Tuesday but most had not yet been counted.

The diverse district stretches from the rural Adirondack Mountains, an hour south of the Canadian border, down to Dutchess County, about an hour north of New York City.

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