Sentences with phrase «hand recount»

Almost two weeks after Election Day, three Long Island races remain too close to declare a victor, with the trailing candidates planning this week to ask judges to order full hand recounts of the tens of thousands of ballots cast in their races.

«At this point the only way to be sure of the accuracy of the count is to do a full hand recount of all the ballots,» said Mr. Schneider, who also serves as chairman of the Brookhaven Town Democratic Committee.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN)- While the official hand recount in Minnesota's tight U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken has ended, a stack of about 1,500 challenged ballots means the announcement of a winner is still at least a few days away.

If Mr. Storobin's lead falls below that number when the absentee votes are finished, there will be an automatic hand recount of all of the ballots in the race.

The Stein campaign also filed a recount petition in Wisconsin on Nov. 25, requesting that a statewide hand recount that started on Thursday.

Democrats will ask the state's highest court to reverse two lower - court rulings and order a lengthy hand recount of some 85,000 paper ballots that were fed into new optical scanning voting machines in the contest between incumbent Nassau Sen. Craig Johnson, a Democrat, and Mineola Mayor Jack Martins, the GOP challenger, who has been officially certified as having won by 451 votes.

A city - mandated hand recount placed Bronx Assemblyman Victor Pichardo just two votes ahead of his Democratic primary challenger Hector Ramirez, a Bronx source told the Observer — which could leave the freshman legislator with one of the narrowest margins of victory in New York State history.

The votes, cast March 20th, have all been counted, but an automatic hand recount of all 20,000 ballots was triggered due to the closeness of the end count — a lead by Mr. Storobin of 27 votes.

Rep. Dan Maffei finally recognized the writing on the wall and conceded the hard - fought NY - 25 race to his Republican challenger, Ann Marie Buerkle, opting to take the advice of Democratic attorneys and GOP leaders and forgo a lengthy, expensive and all - but - certainly futile full hand recount.

That, of course, assumes a hand recount.

Unless there's some sort of miracle in the 7th SD, where Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson is today expected to file a motion to appeal a Nassau County judge's decision over the weekend rejecting his request for a hand recount, the Senate GOP will be returning to the majority come January.

«Some supporters have urged me to press for a hand recount of the ballots because of voting irregularities, but I ran to stick up for Westchester taxpayers and I can not ask them to pay that bill,» Cohen said.

The hand recount revealed that Storobin had won by approximately 15 votes.

Note: After a contested result, legal wrangling, and a hand recount, Lewis Fidler (D) conceded the election to David Storobin (R) on May 31.

The NYC Board of Elections will now embark on a hand recount (I believe its first ever) of some 22,000 ballots.

The dramatic shift now has local Democrats, who have lost nearly 5,000 votes since election day in the two races, calling for a hand recount.

Lawsuits were expected to be filed by Democrats early this week demanding the hand recount.

Losquadro's attorney, his brother Steven Losquadro, said he will continue to fight a hand recount until there is evidence the voting machines miscounted any ballots.

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.

«Unless there's some sort of drastic change in that regard, there won't be a hand recount because there wouldn't be any basis under the law for there to be one.»

That is why I intend to take my request for a full hand recount to a higher court.

UPDATE: DSCC Chairman Austin Shafran says that Senator Craig Johnson will file a notice of appeal on Monday, challenging the judge's ruling against a full hand recount.

The hand recount of the 20,000 ballots cast on March 20th should be finished in the next day or two and the Republican candidate, David Storobin, is close to securing a win with an extremely narrow margin.

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.

1st Assembly District: Attorneys for Alessi and Losquadro are due in State Supreme Court at 9:30 a.m. Monday to discuss Alessi's request for a hand recount of the 42,028 ballots cast in the race.

Lawyers for Suffolk Democrat Rep. Tim Bishop went to court Tuesday to call for a hand recount of some 185,000 votes cast in his re-election bid, which is still up in the air with Republican challenger Randy Altschuler ahead by a hair.

This comes on the heels of a Nassau County judge's decision Saturday to deny the Democrats» request for a hand recount in the 7th SD where Republican Jack Martins leads his Democratic opponent, Sen. Craig Johnson, by 451 votes.

One source said Cohen has decided to opt not to see a «costly» hand recount, despite the fact that the possibility had been raised last week by Senate GOP leaders.

In the two close primaries, Sen. Steve Saland of Poughkeepsie is up 42 votes on challenger Neil DiCarlo, pending absentee ballots and a possible hand recount, and Sen. Roy McDonald of Saratoga is trailing former County Clerk Kathy Marchione by 124 votes, pending the absentees and a possible hand recount.

As of print time, Roddey holds a lead of 1,370 to 1,289 votes in the race to replace Nancy Calhoun, but a hand recount will be requested by Schmitt at a September 24 hearing and at least 160 or so absentee ballots still remain to be counted.

«Although Newsday, The New York Times and the Bishop campaign have all called for a hand recount of all the ballots cast on Election Day, I will not support such an action as I feel its cost will place an unnecessary burden on the taxpayers of Suffolk County.

Democrats had been asking for a full hand recount, but the judge denied that request today.

Amedore's campaign could still ask for a hand recount in the race, but his attorney tells us that is unlikely.

If the first recount shows Buchanan and Jennings separated by less than a quarter percent (entirely possible given the 386 - vote margin currently), an automatic hand recount would be triggered.

If the court orders a hand recount and if Johnson ultimately turns out to be the winner, Democrats and Republicans would be split at a paralyzing 31 votes each.

Thurman presents a largely even - handed recounting, wisely letting folks - and events - speak for themselves.

Using extensive footage from key school board meetings, interviews with the case's various players plus many casual, personal moments with McLeroy, director Scott Thurman presents a largely even - handed recounting, wisely letting folks — and events — speak for themselves.