Associated Press: NY-20 Too-Close-To-Call
Posted Mar 31, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Maurice Berger, Political Director, PollTrack
It's official: with 100% of precincts reporting in NY-20, the race is tied at 50% (Democrat Murphy leads by a scant 65 votes) and is Too-Close-To-Call according to the Associated Press. AP reports: "There are at least 6,000 and possibly as many as 10,000 absentee ballots that will not be included in the results for at least a week." Since the Board of Elections has agreed to continue counting overseas absentee ballots until April 13--many of these from active duty military--this race may not be settled for a while.At this point, it is difficult to gauge the effect of these absentee votes. With some coming from military members (lean Republican), other from voters with second homes in New York City (lean Democrat), and still others from elderly residents (lean Republican), it's hard to create a demographic profile for these remaining ballots.
Here's the AP final tally:
| County | Precincts | Scott Murphy (Dem) |
James Tedisco (GOP) |
| Total | 610/610 | 77,344 50% |
77,279 50% |
| Columbia | 58/58 | 8,576 56% |
6,653 44% |
| Delaware | 49/49 | 3,344 50% |
3,370 50% |
| Dutchess | 72/72 | 9,569 52% |
8,988 48% |
| Essex | 15/15 | 1,269 55% |
1,026 45% |
| Greene | 36/36 | 4,409 45% |
5,460 55% |
| Otsego | 16/16 | 1,001 49% |
1,052 51% |
| Rensselaer | 54/54 | 7,576 49% |
8,035 51% |
| Saratoga | 188/188 | 25,837 46% |
30,247 54% |
| Warren | 70/70 | 8,680 56% |
6,890 44% |
| Washington | 52/52 | 7,083 56% |
5,558 44% |
