New York Republican Claudia Tenney will be certified as the winner in the race to represent the state’s 22nd Congressional District, according to a ruling from the state Supreme Court on Friday.
The decision by State Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte ordering counties and the state elections board to certify her victory ends a three-month legal battle with another House flip for Republicans, whittling the Democratic majority to 221-212. Tenney will unseat first-term Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D).There are still an appeal or two pending and Brindisi is looking for a full district recount, but this was the final decision of the Judge in this case (who is a sitting member of the NY State Supreme Court). I would say that the odds of him being overruled or have something remanded back to him would be pretty low.
So this means that the GOP won both of the extended congressional seat battles and it seems very unlikely that Pelosi and Congress will make any attempts to overturn either of these. Miller-Meeks from Iowa 02 has been sworn in and is currently a sitting member of congress in spite of a challenge pending.
The issue for Democrats appears to be that they sort of painted themselves into a corner with all of their angry calls for universal and unquestioned "acceptance" of the results of the Presidential race. Hard to impeach a President for basically questioning election results and then overturning certified results from a Congressional administrative level and do so with a straight face.
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Elections obviously shouldn't take this long.
We need vote tabulating equipment that counts votes and nothing else. They should never be able to do things like actually print ballots or fill in ballots like the new machines can. Or the host of other "features" new expensive machines come with.
Ballots need to be on hand by election day.
Count the ballots.
Announce a winner.
I also agree with the suggestion that all ballots have a thumbprint. Special care would need to be made for people without thumbs. Some may disagree but I think the integrity is needed.
Half the nation doesn't trust this election and the other half the nation didn't trust the previous election.
In other words no one trusts elections.
Kurt Schlichter
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I am shocked and surprised by this decision because of the countless errors and discrepancies that have occurred throughout this initial count. I believe a full audit and hand recount is the only way to resolve this race.
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