After the first day of recounting votes from Election Day, Nassau County Executive GOP candidate Ed Mangano leads incumbent Tom Suozzi by 24 votes.
The number is small but could paint a troubling scenario for Suozzi, who is seeking a third term in office.
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According to sources the votes counted were from the 14th Legislative District, where Democratic Legislator Dave Mejias is also hoping the recount puts him on top of his challenger Republican Joe Belesi, Long Beach and most of Suozzi’s hometown of Glen Cove.
More than 1,000 voting machines were taken to the Nassau County Board of Elections (BOE) for re-canvassing after the election. The machines are opened up and the votes are recounted. At night, the machines are secured and the two keys that can open the room’s doors are given to the Nassau County Police Department.
Once the machines are examined, absentee ballots will be counted. GOP sources said that with Suozzi being behind even 24 votes after his hometown Glen Cove was recounted could foretell a Republican victory. The absentee ballots are expected to tilt towards the GOP.
Either way, the BOE does not expect to certify any winners until the end of this month.
Tags: Board of Electyions, Ed Mangano, Election Day, recount, Tom Suozzi
Suozzi should lose. How dare he put a surtax of 2% on heating oil in these times of hardship. He has lost touch with the people-he should lose
Let’s just hope that that blood sucking Suozzi is put out of OUR misery !!!
rdmlbny: link? source?
It appears the machines from Glen Cove, Long Beach and the 14 LD
were recounted. Souzzi leads by 24. In these heavily Dem areas he should be leading by a greater margin. The absentee ballots have not yet been counted. Thats how I read it.
Ed Mangano will emerge the winner if it’s assured that the vote is counted without any manipulation or coersion by Dems. I don’t say that to be anti-Dem but rather to ensure a fair count as Dems and the GOP will admittedly do all they can in any election local or nationwide (need i mention Florida) to ensure a victory.
In this case however, the absentee ballot will push Mangano over the top. He has a very, very strong base with Senior citizen’s and a large number of absentee ballots will be filed by “snow birds”….seniors who are already down south for the winter. That huge base of senior’s absentee votes will increase Ed’s lead. I just hope whatever the outcome, that the loser sees the inevitable and does not make the final result an endless court challenge when the County, now more than ever, needs to get on with business and back into the black, fiscally.
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No…that was yesterday. They are at it again today.
Thanks, Michael. One other question: are they really done for the day already at 11 AM, as the first sentence indicates? What is their process for going through the machines, if that info is avail?
Sorry for all the questions. Just wondering what shenanigans are in store for us all…
Glen Cove was counted. In fact, Mangano is now up more than the 24 reported here. Newsday is way off by reporting Suozzi up 100+.
Sorry for the confusion.
I’m unclear, after reading the article, if Glen Cove’s machines have been recounted yet or not. Is this:
“GOP sources said that with Suozzi being behind even 24 votes after his hometown Glen Cove was recounted could foretell a Republican victory. ”
a statement of what has occurred, or what might occur?