GOP Tenney extends here lead over Brindisi in NY 22

 Lead increases to 122 votes overall with limited ballots left to rule on or count

When you are behind in a close race you generally want all of the ballots you can counted. But in this particular case, this logic seemed to backfire on Brindisi and his team. They had originally identified sixty plus ballots (mostly Democrats) who appeared to have had their ballots rejected because of problems with their registration that was done at the DMV. Had the judge ruled these ballots valid, it would have put Brindisi into the lead.

The judge did rule that these ballots must count, but also ordered a review of all of the rejected ballots to see if others fell into this same category. What they found was that over 1000 ballots had been rejected due to issues with their registration at the DMV, who had failed to properly process them. After a full review of those ballots, Tenney picked up 93 votes. 

What happens next is up in the air. The judge ruled against Brindisi on several issues which would have included an additional 284 ballots being counted.  Whether there was enough there to overturn the results is not known. He did rule in Brindisi's favor in some cases, but those were areas where the ballots had already been included in the original count. Brindisi had already filed an appeal even before the judge had ruled, so it's technically not over. 

But at this point, it would appear that the Republicans will have picked up another seat, provided there are no Congressional shenanigans from Pelosi and gang refusing to seat Tenney. 

Iowa 2 Congressional challenge update - Current seated Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks put in a request to dismiss the House challenge made by her opponent Rita Hart. The argument (which applied to the rules in this case) suggest that Hart should have gone to the Iowa court to make her appeal, rather than the House. The rules in place that allow Congress to review and possibly overturn elections has fairly clear language that the appeal is only to take place after all legal recourses at the state level are completed. In this case, the argument is that Hart refused to make an appeal to the Iowa courts, thus forfeits the right to make this sort of challenge.

The bigger political issue at this point probably makes it harder for Pelosi and gang to unseat Miller-Meeks (who voted to certify the Biden win). As Democrats continue to argue that Congress has no place to challenge election results, some even calling for the resignation and removal of those who did, it would seem blatantly hypocritical for them to literally use their power to overturn a certified election result in one of their own races.