ALBANY—The ballot-counting the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress will likely go on for a long time, in light of a court ruling just issued.
Judge James Brands declined to set a specific standard regarding valid residency, and said that objections lodged on the basis of ballot applications will, indeed, stand. While Democrat Scott Murphy leads Jim Tedisco by 273 votes according to the latest official tally, there are some 1,800 votes left uncounted.
This ruling favors the Tedisco camp–or at least buys them time.
Brands clarified an earlier ruling by saying that applications for absentee ballots were correctly provided to both campaigns, and that objections to ballots lodged based on these applications do stand.
