Twelve weeks after the election and still no winner has been declared in New York’s 22nd Congressional District.
As it stand now, the Republican challenger Claudia Tenney has a 29 vote lead over incumbent Rep. Anthony Brindisi.
At one point, Tenney had a 12 vote lead then 55 ballots were discovered.
It doesn’t appear that an official winner will be declared anything soon. Last week a judge ruled that the Oneida County Board of Elections improperly rejected ballots cast by registered voters and ordered the board to correct those errors.
“It comes after the discovery two weeks ago that Oneida County’s elections board failed to process 2,418 voter registration forms from voters who applied on time via the Department of Motor Vehicles. Those voters would have been told they weren’t registered when they arrived at the polling place.
Hundreds of them likely walked away without voting, and many others went on to file affidavit ballots that were also not counted. There are 1,028 rejected affidavit ballots in Oneida County that could be from voters who applied on time via the DMV, according to DelConte’s ruling.
He’s ordered the county elections staff to review all of them to determine how many fit in that category. Those that do fit will be counted, the judge ruled.”
Last week, Tenney’s campaign put out a statement saying that Brindisi’s team:
“continue to contort the law, twist the facts and delay the legal process to advance their partisan agenda. They are cherry picking ballots only to count votes cast for Brindisi."