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Democratic Elections Commissioner Kristen Stavisky says military ballots need to go out Friday, and the appeal is not expected to be heard until early next week.

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The county Board of Elections begins mailing out military ballots on Sept. 24, officials said last week.

Martins said the congressional race needed to be moved back if the primary was delayed to allow absentee ballots to get to military voters overseas and to allow him to fully campaign against the Democrat in the race, Thomas Suozzi of Glen Cove.

Tammy Sun, a spokeswoman for attorney Sean Coffey, a former prosecutor who lives in Westchester and is also running for the Democratic nomination, did not comment on Rice, but said of Coffey's record - voting 15 out of 26 years - several were military absentee ballots which may have gone uncounted.

Whitney's refusal to rule was holding up the printing of ballots, which needing to be shipped out to military personnel, said McGahay.

While some states have made it possible for military or abroad voters to return absentee ballots by e-mail or by fax, Kellner said New York had rejected that idea out of concerns over voter privacy and the risk of vote interception, and was instead focusing on making it easier for absentee voters to receive ballots.

Republican State Sen. Tom O'Mara, who sponsored the bill, said the later date will also give New York more time to comply with the MOVE Act, a federal law that requires states to send absentee ballots to military voters overseas no less than 45 days before an election.

Officials at the New York State Board of Elections say that local absentee ballots have until April 7 to be sent in, and military or overseas ballots have until April 13.

But Tedisco said that because the tally so far doesn't include military voters, who tend to lean Republican, the remaining ballots will push him over the edge.

Some military ballots remain to be counted in this county - wide race, but they aren't enough to change the outcome, county Democratic Elections Commissioner Beth McLaughlin said Monday.