Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government by Andrew Mark Miller, Social Media Producer
The Republican candidate in a narrow House race added to her lead Friday after a newly discovered error produced hundreds of eligible ballots.
Republican Claudia Tenney leads Democrat Anthony Brindisi by 122 votes, up from 29 votes, in New Yorkâs 22nd Congressional District race after a mistake by county elections staff was discovered that resulted in more than 300 new votes, according to Syracuse.com.
State Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte recently learned of a mistake by Oneida County elections staff in which more than 2,400 people registered to vote on time at the Department of Motor Vehicles but the staff failed to process their applications â meaning that those voters would have been told they werenât registered on Election Day.
This error prompted DelConte to order a review of 1,100 affidavit ballots that were potentially from voters who applied on time but did not have their applications processed, and it was determined that 393 of those votes belonged to voters who registered on time….
