Updated 10:00 am Nov. 18
see report on Voting Problems in Brooklyn and Southampton following this summary
Here are some election results from Long Island and New York State prepared by WPKN's East End News Team:
About 40% of eligible voters went to the polls yesterday according to the Suffolk County Board of Elections.
Republicans
targeted Democrat Tim Bishop, the 4 term 1st Congressional District
Representative in their campaign to take over the House. Republican
businessman Randy Altschuler led Mr. Bishop by 383 votes with all election districts reporting after the Board of Elections revised their count following election day. A total recount has been requested by the Bishop Campaign - to be settled in court.
Absentee ballots were not counted as of Nov. 18. Mr. Bishop has not claimed victory and Mr. Altschuler has not conceded as of 9am on Wednesday Nov. 3.
Employment
was an issue in the campaign with the Republican claiming he had
created many jobs for Long Islanders while Democrat Bishop said
Altschuler had outsourced jobs to India and elsewhere. Altschuler
criticized Bishop for supporting Obama's health care reform and stimulus
packages.
Voters in the 2nd C.D. gave long time Representative Steve Israel,
a Democrat, a 55% to 43% lead over Republican John Gomez.
Conservative Republican 3rd C.D. candidate Peter King, a multi term Congressman was re-elected by a wide margin.
In the governor's race, Andrew Cuomo easily beat Carl Palladino
with Democrat Cuomo receiving 57% of the vote to Republican Paladino's 38% with almost all votes counted.
Green
Party Howie Hawkins received less than 1% of the vote trailing Jimmy
McMillan of the "Rent is 2 Damn High party" with 1.25%. However the Greens received enough votes to maintain their position on future ballots.
Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer
and Kirsten Gillibrand
were returned to the Senate. Ms. Gillibrand was elected to fill
the un-expired term vacated by now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In the state assembly on long island voters returned long time
1st District State Sen. Ken Lavalle, a Republican
to Albany defeating Democrat challenger Jennifer Maertz.
In the 3rd District Republican Lee Zeldin defeated Democrat Brian Foley.
58% to 42% with 97% of votes counted.
Long
time State Assemblyman Fred Thiele running on the Democrat, Working
Families and Independence lines defeated Republican Richard Blumenthal
by a wide margin to represent the 2nd Assembly district.
Democrat Marc Alessi and Republican Daniel Losquadro were in a tight race to represent the 1st Assembly district.
This summary of the vote on eastern Long Island was from Unofficial results provided by the Suffolk County Board of
Elections.
Here are some election results from Long Island and New York State:
About 40% of eligible voters went to the polls yesterday according to the Suffolk County Board of Elections.
Republicans
targeted Democrat Tim Bishop, the 4 term 1st Congressional District
Representative in their campaign to take over the House. But Republican
businessman Randy Altschuler
trailed Mr. Bishop by about 49% to Mr. Bishop's 51% of the votes with all
election districts reporting. Absentee ballots were not included in the unofficial results.
Employment
was an issue in the campaign with the Republican claiming he had
created many jobs for Long Islanders while Democrat Bishop said
Altschuler had outsourced jobs to India and elsewhere. Altschuler
criticized Bishop for supporting Obama's health care reform and stimulus
packages.
Voters in the 2nd C.D. gave long time Representative Steve Israel,
a Democrat, a 55% to 43% lead over Republican John Gomez.
Conservative Republican 3rd C.D. candidate Peter King, a multi term Congressman was re-elected by a wide margin.
In the governor's race, Andrew Cuomo easily beat Carl Palladino
with Democrat Cuomo receiving 57% of the vote to Republican Paladino's 38% with almost all votes counted.
Green
Party Howie Hawkins received less than 1% of the vote trailing Jimmy
McMillan of the "Rent is 2 Damn High party" with 1.25%.
Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer
and Kirsten Gillibrand
were returned to the Senate. Ms. Gillibrand was elected to fill
the un-expired term vacated by now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In the state assembly on long island voters returned long time
1st District State Sen. Ken Lavalle, a Republican
to Albany defeating Democrat challenger Jennifer Maertz.
In the 3rd District Republican Lee Zeldin defeated Democrat Brian Foley.
58% to 42% with 97% of votes counted.
Long
time State Assemblyman Fred Thiele running on the Democrat, Working
Families and Independence lines defeated Republican Richard Blumenthal
by a wide margin to represent the 2nd Assembly district.
Democrat Marc Alessi and Republican Daniel Losquadro were in a tight race to represent the 1st Assembly district.
This summary of the vote on eastern Long Island was from Unofficial results provided by the Suffolk County Board of
Elections.
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Voting Problems in Park Slope were reported in the NY Daily News and
the same problem - machines not working were observed here in
Southampton.
from NY Daily News
* "Just voted (by emergency ballot) at PS282
in Park Slope. Scanning machines are not working and they have no ETA
when they will. There is technician working on the machine but in the
meantime everyone is voting by emergency ballot. According to the poll
workers, an "initial report" was not run on the machines, and that is
the hold up.... but I observed the
technician dealing with several (what I assume were test) ballots that
were getting jammed in the machine and heard him make the comment to a
poll worker "I don't know what to do."
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