Race for last House seat in NY 1 could drag on for weeks with double residency ballot issues

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11/30/10, "Last House race could drag on for weeks," Politico, A. Isenstadt

"Nearly one month after Election Day, one final undecided House race appears likely to stretch on for days - if not weeks - longer.

As the campaigns for New York Rep. Tim Bishop and Republican challenger Randy Altschuler headed to a Suffolk County courtroom on Tuesday for what an Altschuler spokesman called an "informational" meeting regarding about

• 2,000 challenged ballots that will decide the outcome of the race. A bipartisan election commission is expected to meet next week to pore over the contested votes.
  

As of Tuesday evening, Bishop held a 221-vote lead over Altschuler. The Republican picked up 13 votes earlier in the day as local election officials counted 71 military votes and both campaigns agreed to withdraw challenges on 258 ballots. ...

• Rob Ryan, an Altschuler spokesman, said the Republican was not close to conceding the race and predicted that the outcome of the contest would not be known for weeks."

There's going to be some serious, serious challenges going on because of residency issues," said Ryan, pointing to a Monday Fox News investigation that suggested several

• cases of voter registration irregularities in the race."...

11/29/10, "Voting Twice? Ballot questions in congressional race," Fox News

"A Fox News Voter Fraud Unit review of approximately 438 of the absentee ballot voters, who also maintain mailing addresses in New York City, reveals that

• 48 have double registrations.
  

They voted by absentee ballot in Suffolk County, but are also listed as current "active" voters on the New York City rolls. Being registered in two separate jurisdictions is illegal and is a felony in New York State...

• The overwhelming majority of the Long Island voters, who are also on the New York City voter rolls, appear to be
  

• wealthy Manhattanites who own second-homes in the posh resort towns

• of East Hampton, Southampton, Montauk, Amagansett and Shelter Island.

Many of them voted in Manhattan as recently as last November in New York City's mayoral election, and in the presidential election of 2008."...

• 11/9, Alec Baldwin has said if the Republican wins, he'll run against him in 2012.

Amazing the Republicans aren't rolling over.

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