Posted on 04/15/2009 9:48:39 PM PDT by zaphod3000
ALBANY—Judge James Brands just ruled that most of the over 1,200 contested absentee ballots in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress were objected to improperly based on discrepancies in their applications. This means many more ballots will be counted.
Henry Berger, an attorney for Democratic candidate Scott Murphy, argued this morning that these ballots should all be counted because boards of election already issued them. Any problems with those ballots - from an invalid reason for the request to a missing date - cannot be challenged because the determination was already made by elections officials to send them out.
Two Republican attorneys, James Walsh representing Assemblyman Jim Tedisco and John Ciampoli representing State Chairman Joe Mondello, disputed this in court. Ciampoli called a system advocated by Berger "logistically impossible" and said "that's not the process that's been envisioned for years."
Sorry—here is the link to the article: http://www.politickerny.com/3099/ny-20-judge-most-objections-invalid.
Are they allowing the military ballots?
>Are they allowing the military ballots?
No, I think military bullets would be frowned upon.
It seems acorn was busy in NY 20.
It looks like most of the military ballots will be thrown away.
Citizens in the 20th district can’t be silent about this, or it will CONTINUE!
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