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"WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the Westchester County legislator who challenged incumbent state Senator Nicholas Spano, took a lead today as election workers double-checked voting machines in the 35th Senate District.
Jonathan Rosen, director of the state Democrats' campaign committee, says Stewart-Cousins was up by 263 machine votes in late afternoon.
That was more than enough to offset a Spano lead of about a dozen votes in early counting of absentee ballots.
Spano is assistant majority leader of the Senate and a nine-term veteran.
G-O-P election lawyer John Ciampoli yesterday acknowledged gains for Stewart-Cousins but said they don't mean anything until the recanvass is finished.
A week earlier, the unofficial election night tally had her behind by 16-hundred-and-74 votes.
The recanvassing of machines in Yonkers had been completed, but the check was not yet complete in sections of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant that also lie in the district.
Thousands of absentee ballots and provisional ballots also remain to be counted."
Jonathan Rosen, director of the state Democrats' campaign committee, says Stewart-Cousins was up by 263 machine votes in late afternoon.
That was more than enough to offset a Spano lead of about a dozen votes in early counting of absentee ballots.
Spano is assistant majority leader of the Senate and a nine-term veteran.
G-O-P election lawyer John Ciampoli yesterday acknowledged gains for Stewart-Cousins but said they don't mean anything until the recanvass is finished.
A week earlier, the unofficial election night tally had her behind by 16-hundred-and-74 votes.
The recanvassing of machines in Yonkers had been completed, but the check was not yet complete in sections of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant that also lie in the district.
Thousands of absentee ballots and provisional ballots also remain to be counted."
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