ALBANY—Despite a recent spate of negative developments, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco’s legal team thinks there may be an opportunity to change a court ruling rendered against them Wednesday—part of the ongoing fight over paper ballots in the race between Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy for the Kirsten Gillibrand House seat.
Wednesday’s ruling essentially said that the campaigns don’t have a right to contest applications for absentee ballots once the ballots have actually been issued by the county board of elections. If the ruling stands, it would render moot most of the Republican-issued challenges to the status of absentee voters, and could preclude any remaining possibility of the Tedisco campaign catching up to