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Absentee Ballots in Limbo Over Lost Sticky Notes in Brindisi-Tenney House Race [New York]
Syracuse.com | 11/23/2020 | Mark Weiner

The fate of 39 absentee ballots in the election between Rep. Anthony Brindisi and Claudia Tenney is up in the air after election officials admitted in court today that they lost sticky notes attached to some of the ballots.

Oneida County’s election commissioners told state Supreme Court Justice Scott J. DelConte that the color-coded notes explained how the ballots were handled and whether they were counted.

But by the time an envelope arrived at DelConte’s courtroom, at least eight ballots had no sticky note.

DelConte asked Cardone how to determine whether a ballot was counted and whether it was contested.

“You can’t,” she admitted.

Both commissioners said they believed each ballot had a sticky note on it and had no clue as to how they could have fallen off the ballots or what could have gone wrong in the process.

“We have a serious problem on our hands,” DelConte said.

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