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THE 20TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SPECIAL ELECTION

 

Carole Osterink

ccSCOOP Editor

UPDATE 04-01-09 - At 2:12 p.m., the Columbia County Board of Elections distributed its retabulated but still unofficial results from yesterday's special election. While Murphy still has a comfortable 56 percent of the votes cast in Columbia County, 10 votes have shifted from Murphy to Tedisco, making the current totals 8,449 for Murphy and 6,560 for Tedisco.

Murphy's lead districtwide, which last night was reported variously as 59, 65, and 66, today has dropped to 25, according to the Times Union, as well as other sources, and the Times Union is attributing the narrowing lead solely to the change in Columbia County's numbers.

 

 

The recalculation resulted in changes in the numbers from two polling places: Hudson 4, where votes for Murphy on the Democratic line were yesterday reported as 97 but today as 87; and Livingston 1, where votes for Tedisco on the Republican line were yesterday reported as 130 but today as 140. The chart below shows the changes.

 
 
  MURPHY TEDISCO   MURPHY TEDISCO
Ancram 1 116 62 Greenport 3 122 132
Ancram 2 65 61 Greenport 4 104 101
Austerlitz 1 145 95 Hillsdale 1 151 76
Austerlitz 2 202 64 Hillsdale 2 152 71
Canaan 1 183 65 Hudson 1 103 22
Canaan 2 159 110 Hudson 2 129 24
Chatham 1 227 140 Hudson 3-1 99 25
Chatham 2 187 107 Hudson 3-2 54 41
Chatham 3 186 125 Hudson 4 111/101 24
Chatham 4 202 114 Hudson 5-1 133 57
Claverack 1 174 195 Hudson 5-2 121 116
Claverack 2 85 99 Kinderhook 1 218 124
Claverack 3 115 87 Kinderhook 2 144 120
Claverack 4 51 50 Kinderhook 3 141 143
Claverack 5 185 175 Kinderhook 4 177 138
Claverack 6 143 165 Kinderhook 5 159 146
Clermont 214 231 Kinderhook 6 162 115
Copake 1 136 114 Kinderhook 7 181 129
Copake 2 224 185 Kinderhook 8 182 180
Gallatin 164 135 Livingston 1 128 156/166
Germantown 1 165 121 Livingston 2 92 84
Germantown 2 125 130 Livingston 3 121 132
Ghent 1 115 58 New Lebanon 1 151 80
Ghent 2 157 85 New Lebanon 2 159 125
Ghent 3 221 156 Stockport 1 188 206
Ghent 4 143 155 Stockport 2 84 125
Ghent 5 92 83 Stuyvesant 1 133 110
Greenport 1 120 174 Stuyvesant 2 163 123
Greenport 2 137 153 Taghkanic 169 131

Although retabulated, and results are still unofficial. A recanvass of the voting machines was started this afternoon, but there has been no report yet on the results. The absentee ballots also have yet to be counted. In Columbia County, 1407 absentee ballots were issued. According to one report, 677 went to Democrats, 366 to Republicans, 290 to NOPs (no official party), 34 to members of the Independence Party, and 24 to members of the Conservative Party. As of last night, 809 of those absentee ballots had been returned: 471 from Democrats, 242 from Republicans, and 96 from NOPS and members of third parties.

 
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