{"id":1751773,"date":"2022-11-26T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751773"},"modified":"2022-11-26T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T12:33:07","slug":"ny-gop-assembly-candidate-leading-by-razor-thin-3-vote-margin-dem-incumbent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gop-assembly-candidate-leading-by-razor-thin-3-vote-margin-dem-incumbent\/","title":{"rendered":"NY GOP Assembly Candidate Leading by Razor-Thin 3 Vote Margin Dem Incumbent"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fny-gop-assembly-candidate-leading-by-razor-thin-3-vote-margin-dem-incumbent%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=1751773&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_NY_Assembly.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The gap between Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-york-issues-first-batch-of-recreational-marijuana-licenses-to-ex-drug-offenders-and-their-families\">New York<\/a> State Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato and her Republican challenger Tom Sullivan in the race for District 23 has shrunk to just three votes, prompting a recount.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the recount, however, Amato has gone to court seeking the reexamination of ninety-two disputed absentee votes and two improperly invalidated votes, a move Sullivan has vowed to fight back against.<\/p>\n<p>Amato filed the lawsuit at the NY Supreme Court in Queens, the borough she represents in the State Assembly, calling for the votes to be counted.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockawave.com\/articles\/assembly-down-to-3-votes-lawsuit-underway\/\">Rockawave<\/a> reports, Amato alleged that despite the absentee ballots having issues with their envelopes, they should nonetheless be counted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voters&#8217; rights are paramount,&#8221; she argued, &#8220;and no voter should be penalized with arbitrary determinations which defy logic and prevent a voter from even attempting to cure potential errors.&#8221; She added that the ballots in question still &#8220;meet all the statutory obligations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan, however, noted that the ballots &#8220;were voided by a bipartisan team from the Board of Elections,&#8221; and that, &#8220;there were material mistakes on those ballots that put the integrity of the ballot in question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted that, contrary to what Amato claimed, the ballots were &#8220;either not postmarked, not sealed, not signed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s really out of options and doesn&#8217;t want to lose,&#8221; Sullivan added. &#8220;I can\u2019t fault her for that.&#8221; Amato has served in her position for three terms.<\/p>\n<p>The matter is scheduled to be dealt with beginning Thursday, December 1, as the court works to &#8220;determine if the Board of Elections complied with Election Law with respect to the ballots deemed invalid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/24\/pheffer-amato-down-by-3-votes-in-queens-assembly-race-against-thomas-sullivan\/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&#038;utm_source=Slack\">\u00a0New York Post<\/a> reports, while Biden won the district in 2020, during the recent midterm elections, Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/ny-gop-candidate-for-governor-lee-zeldin-to-reverse-kathy-hochuls-pro-crime-policies\">Lee Zeldin<\/a> came out on top as residents responded positively to his opposition to controversial criminal justice reforms pushed by now-governor <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-lee-zeldin-takes-aim-at-kathy-hochuls-soft-on-crime-record-in-new-york-gubernatorial-debate\">Kathy Hochul<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gap between Democrat New York State Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato and her Republican challenger Tom Sullivan in the race for District 23 has shrunk to just three votes, prompting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}