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With All Precincts In, Murphy Leads Tedisco by 65 Votes; 6K to 10K Absentees Uncounted

10:59 PM, Mar 31, 2009 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
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Wow: With 610/610 precincts reporting, Democrat Scott Murphy leads Republican Jim Tedisco by just 65 votes (77,344 to 77,279).

Via Jim Geraghty, a local news station reports:

"Absentee ballots and emergency paper ballots in the 20th Congressional District special election have been impounded under a court order, said Bob Brehm, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections."

The Albany Times-Union reports: "As of Monday, 5,907 absentee ballots were received by the state Board of Elections out of around 10,000 mailed, according to spokesman Bob Brehm. Absentee ballots must be postmarked by March 30 and received within seven days for regular absentee ballots or 13 days for military and overseas ballots."

In other words, there are hundreds if not thousands of ballots that could determine the outcome of the race still sitting in the mail.

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