NY-20: Beware the "Pizza Stain" Judge

by: Hudson

Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 18:41:44 PM EDT

Many of us feel relatively confident of Scott Murphy's chances of winning the Congressional seat in NY-20. The numbers seem to stack up pretty well for him, when one examines where the votes are coming from.

The one shot that Tedisco might have is to have a hyperpartisan judge uphold the hundreds and hundreds of ballots his lawyers have speciously challenged.

And in Dutchess County Supreme Court judge James V. Brands, Tedisco may just have found his man...

Details (and what this has to do with pizza) after the jump...

NY-20: All-purpose update thread

by: Hudson

Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 14:52:41 PM EDT

B R E A K I N G

Allegations have arisen that Tedisco is targeting Jewish absentee voters who received their ballots in New York City and Florida:

Politico:

Most of the action was taking place in Columbia County, where Tedisco attorney James Walsh objected to nearly every absentee ballot that came from voters who own a residence in New York City or Florida.

[There is] a concerted effort from Tedisco's campaign to challenge the legality of ballots from voters who have their primary residence outside of the district.  According to Democratic figures, about 60 percent of the absentee ballot challenges came from Tedisco as of last Friday, and that number has shot up with today's rash of challenges.

The slew of challenges led Democrats in Columbia County accusing Tedisco of deliberately trying to disenfranchise Jewish voters, since many of the ballots from the city came from voters with last names like Cohen, Pollack and Rosengarten.

"My children are Jewish, and I'm offended by that," Walsh responded to the New York Observer.

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Read this article, about the ratcheting up of phony "vote fraud" allegations from the Tedisco camp:

http://ccscoop.com/news/09apri...

{ UPDATED x4 } NY-20: Urgent distress call from Columbia County

by: Hudson

Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 00:03:45 AM EDT

http://www.timesunion.com/AspS...

Commendations to reporter Leigh Hornbeck for taking a second look, when evidence of a problem was brought to her attention.

HUMOROUS UPDATE: The Tedisco legal team has apparently been complaining that the reason the count is going so slowly is that they have to access data on the web, but the County won't allow outside access to its internet system, so they have to use slow satellite cards.

But take a close look at this photo in CCScoop. Check out what's on the screen of the guy with the laptop:

He's not accessing an online database -- that's the Drudge Report he's reading!

EVENING UPDATE: Check out what is being reported in The Hudson Register-Star on Friday:

Much more after the jump...