Election Purgatory In Ny-20

Get comfortable. The final results of the special congressional race in upstate New York between Jim Tedisco (R) and Scott Murphy (D) aren’t going to be known for several weeks, possibly longer. As the absentee ballots continue to be received, opened, counted, challenged, etc., Leigh Hornbeck sums up the increasingly tense and tedious situation perfectly in yesterday’s Albany Times Union.