On Monday, members of the Chautauqua County Board of Elections
hand counted absentee, affidavit and... [Read more...]
Not exact matches
Results in Cuyahoga will further be delayed because the optical scan system used for the 17,000 +
absentee ballots does not work properly and will be
counted by
hand.
Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said Bishop's team should wait for the Board of Elections to complete its 3 percent audit of voting machines and
count absentee ballots before calling for a
hand recount.
Bishop's attorney, Thomas Garry, is planning to file legal paperwork asking a Suffolk judge to order a
hand recount of the 185,000 ballots cast, and elections officials are preparing to begin the
count of
absentee ballots, perhaps as soon as Tuesday, elections officials said.
Davis said the Clinton County Board of Elections failed to follow proper election rules by not allowing him to attend a
hand count of
absentee ballots and affidavits on Nov. 15.
Counties used this time to
count any
absentee ballots or provisional ballots not yet
counted, to reconcile the number of signatures on the roster of registered voters with the number of ballots recorded on the ballot statement, to
count any valid write - in votes, to reproduce any damaged ballots, if necessary, and to conduct a
hand count of the ballots cast in 1 % of the precincts, chosen at random by the elections official.
If, on the other
hand, Murphy loses after all the
absentees are
counted, there is likely to be some discussion in Democratic circles that the Democratic National Committee, which spent a meager $ 10,000 on an ad in which Obama endorsed Murphy, and the White House did not do enough to bring their candidate across the line.