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The counting of the absentee ballots began on Thursday and was expected to be done by the end of the day on Friday or possibly Monday.
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The Saratoga County Board of Elections will begin opening absentee ballots on Tuesday morning.
Similarly in Florida, absentee balloting began only Tuesday, but already more than 2.5 million people — nearly one - third of the total number of votes cast in 2012 — have requested ballots.
Suffolk elections officials on Friday began the lengthy process of counting the 16,690 absentee and affidavit ballots in the tightly contested countywide sheriff's race, starting with the county's smallest town, Shelter Island.
But the votes that decided this primary were the nearly 1,800 absentee ballots the Suffolk County Board of Elections began counting on Thursday.
The county elections board will begin its count of absentee ballots on April 27, and expects to finish by the end of next week, Gugerty said.
Rep. Charlie Rangel's lead over challenger state Sen. Adriano Espaillat increased slightly as the Board of Elections began counting absentee and and affadavit ballots yesterday.
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.
Voters began casting absentee ballots Tuesday to take advantage of a disputed early voting law in the crucial swing state of Ohio.
The justices on the state's highest court heard arguments on whether problems counting absentee ballots justify the reversal of a lower state court ruling that declared Franken, the former comedian and progressive radio talk show host, the winner by 312 votes over Coleman, the freshman senator whose term expired at the beginning of the year.
Last week, the three board of elections began counting absentee ballots in the tight race.
That possibility remains for former county Democratic Party chair and incumbent county legislator John Parete of Boiceville, who holds a slim 20 vote lead over Democratic challenger Kathy Nolan in the 22nd district, which includes Shandaken, Olive, Denning and Hardenburgh, with 217 absentee ballots on hand at the county board of elections and a possibility of more arriving before they can be opened beginning Wednesday, November 15.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN)- Perhaps laying the groundwork for an appeal to a higher court, Republican Norm Coleman's attorneys are beginning to publicly question the three - judge panel presiding over his post-election legal battle, saying Wednesday that the judges are creating a «real problem» by not reconsidering their ruling from Friday that put a damper on much of Coleman's case over rejected absentee ballots.
The counting of absentee ballots from Onondaga County, where the most absentees come from, and Wayne County won't begin until Nov. 17.
Absentee ballots may be requested for each individual election beginning on January 1, or 90 days before the date of an election, whichever is earlier.