{"id":119485,"date":"2021-02-06T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T11:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119485"},"modified":"2021-02-06T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T13:07:23","slug":"claudia-tenney-will-be-certified-winner-of-last-open-us-house-race-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/claudia-tenney-will-be-certified-winner-of-last-open-us-house-race-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Tenney Will Be Certified Winner of Last Open US House Race: Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclaudia-tenney-will-be-certified-winner-of-last-open-us-house-race-judge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-claudia-tenney\">Claudia Tenney<\/a> will be declared the winner of the last undecided House of Representatives race this election cycle, a judge ruled Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tenney ran against incumbent Democrat Anthony Brindisi to represent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nyc\">New York<\/a>\u2019s 22nd Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>New York Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte said that all local boards of elections have certified their results, apart from the Oneida County Board of Elections, and granted a motion by Tenney to order final certification of the election results by the county and the state boards of elections.<\/p>\n<p>Tenney will be certified the winner by 109 votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored to have won this race. It was a hard-fought campaign and I think Anthony Brindisi for his service. Now that every legal vote has been counted, it\u2019s time for the results to be certified,\u201d Tenney said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Brindisi said he was \u201cshocked and surprised\u201d and called for a full audit and hand recount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the margin so thin, the ever-changing tally, and the countless errors that have occurred arriving at today\u2019s final number we can\u2019t afford to wonder here. We have to get it right. Because this is not a raffle, this is a congressional election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The race was fraught with legal challenges, as both candidates asked the court to intervene shortly after polls closed on Election Day. The court heard testimony from 19 witnesses, received over 1,800 exhibits, and resolved nearly 1,200 ballot challenges. The judge found that 1,093 valid ballots were improperly rejected by Oneida County officials and that another 46 valid ballots were misplaced in Broome and Chenango counties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3594643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tenney-brindisi-1200x596-1.jpg\" alt=\"tenney brindisi\" width=\"640\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.) and Claudia Tenney in file photographs. (U.S. House of Representatives; Claudia Tenney\u2019s campaign)<\/p>\n<p>The judge took aim at local election boards, criticizing them for what he described as \u201csystemic violations of state and federal election law.\u201d In an egregious example, he said Oneida County prevented more than 2,400 voters from voting because officials failed to process applications through the Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The only claim of voter fraud was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of this special proceeding, every single valid vote that was cast \u2026 has been accounted for, and counted,\u201d DelConte said <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20473970-efc_2020_1376_claudia_tenney_v_claudia_tenney_decision___order_on_229\">in his ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a stay would be \u201centirely ineffective\u201d and asserted Brindisi didn\u2019t establish the \u201cprospect of irreparable harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The certification doesn\u2019t preclude Brindisi\u2019s planned appeal and he could eventually be seated, the judge said. Tenney, once certified the winner, will need to be seated by the House, which is controlled by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/house-dems-consider-panel-to-decide-on-seating-two-gop-winners_3618270.html\">were mulling<\/a> convening a panel to decide on seating Tenney and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an Iowa Republican who won a House race by six votes.\u00a0Miller-Meeks was provisionally seated last month as lawmakers continue weighing whether to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>If Tenney is seated, the Democrats\u2019 majority would dwindle to 221-212.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only took 94 days, but Claudia Tenney has finally been declared the winner in #NY22. It\u2019s about time,\u201d House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in a tweet. \u201cThat\u2019s the 15th House seat that Republicans flipped, and she joins 18 other women to set the record for our largest female freshman class ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Claudia Tenney will be declared the winner of the last undecided House of Representatives race this election cycle, a judge ruled Friday. 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