Military ballots to decide in my home district

It’s a horse race in my hometown district (NY-25) and my home, Wayne County, has pushed the Republican Ann Marie Buerkle into the lead according to the Syracuse Post Standard;

In a stunning reversal from election night, Republican Ann Marie Buerkle surged ahead of U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei by 659 votes Wednesday in the 25th Congressional District race after Wayne County reported its unofficial returns.

Buerkle began the day trailing Maffei by about 5,600 votes, but she took the lead after a convincing victory in Wayne County, the final county in the four-county district to report its results. Buerkle trounced Maffei in the rural Republican county, 15,429 (63 percent) to 9,191 (37 percent), according to returns Wayne County released at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday — more than 20 hours after polls closed.

Now the two candidates are separated by only 659 votes — Buerkle leads 99,594 to 98,935 — meaning the election will be decided by absentee and military ballots.

I think it’s pretty exciting that the race hangs on those military ballots, the same kind of ballots that won’t get counted in other counties across the nation. And now you can see why Democrats hate those military votes.

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