{"id":704,"date":"2009-04-24T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/24\/reports-tedisco-concession-coming-soon-murphy-leads-by-401\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:36:00","slug":"reports-tedisco-concession-coming-soon-murphy-leads-by-401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/04\/24\/reports-tedisco-concession-coming-soon-murphy-leads-by-401\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Tedisco concession coming soon; Murphy leads by 401"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two news organizations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/34241-1.html\">RollCall<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/capitalnews9.com\/content\/politics\/137979\/boe-officials-going-over-more-ballots\/Default.aspx\">Capital News 9<\/a>, are reporting that Republican Jim Tedisco has &#8220;abandoned hope&#8221; of winning the special election and &#8220;could conceded to Democrat Scott Murphy as soon as Friday afternoon.&#8221;<span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.state.ny.us\/\">latest official tally<\/a>, Scott Murphy leads by 401 votes.  He&#8217;s held an advantage for nearly two weeks, which has grown steadily during the recanvassing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the liberal website <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/04\/tedisco-tries-to-make-roadkill-of-sam-seders-ballot.php?ref=fp1\">Talking Points Media<\/a> is reporting that Republicans challenged (unsuccessfully) the ballot of a prominent progressive radio host, Sam Seder, who was busy on election day with jury duty.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sam was none too impressed when I told him that the Tedisco campaign alleged that he wasn&#8217;t a resident of the district. &#8220;Jerks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, I could tell you I&#8217;ve attended far more Livingston town meetings than Jim Tedisco has.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans earlier tried to disqualify the ballot of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=793252\">Albany Times-Union<\/a> has an excellent report on the reasons for ballot disqualifications &#8212; including an error that forced officials to discard votes from an Essex County nursing home.<span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Essex County, elections officials brought ballots to a nursing home so residents there could vote, but then put the ballots in the wrong envelopes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NCPR will follow developments in the 20th race through the day and will have an update during All Before Five.<br \/><span class=\"story\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two news organizations, RollCall and Capital News 9, are reporting that Republican Jim Tedisco has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}