[supremedoctrine]

It’s just disgusting that things have evolved in this country so that EVERY election for ANYTHING seems to be subject to all these ‘problems’-—no one seems to want it to be a national priority to clean up the process, apparently because it’s just too much fun and offers too much good old bipartisan anxiety as the challenges and concessions go on.
WHATEVER you might say about NY23 is effectively undermined
by the fact that the Hoffman campaign OFFICIALLY conceded yesterday.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Here in our little county in WV, about 10 years ago there was an unprecedentedly close election where the not-very-well-known Republican almost upset the Democrat incumbent. The vote was UNofficially a 200 vote margin out of 20,000 paper ballots, but nothing could be declared official until the canvass a week later, followed by a possible call for a recount within 72 hours of the canvass results. This would be expensive (basically paying the salary for 4 courthouse employees for as many days that a recount would take, so several thousand dollars).

Many of us in the local GOP offered to donate money to cover the cost of a recount, but as you would expect, teh candidate refused to challenge the unofficial results so they were duly certified. His excuse was that this was happening during the Bush-Gore recount fiasco in Florida and he didn;t want it to look like the GOP just challenged the votes everywhere "just because" the vote was close. None of us could believe it.