The first thing you should know is that Justice DelConte didn't directly rule in favor of one candidate or the other, while he did partially grant Brindisi's motion.
This process we will now have to follow is entirely of his creation.
Justice DelConte was extremely critical of the BOEs, particularly their failure to follow state law and allow candidates to review administrative rejections.
There are 1500 ballots in Oneida, 100 in Cortland, and "hundreds" in Broome that were not properly canvassed the 1st time
These ballots, in addition to the 67 found in Chenango and any other ballots found from this point on, will now be canvassed. This means if any of them are found to be valid, they will be counted.
Bottom line?? There are likely going to be a lot more votes now included in the counts than previously, and several BOE errors should hopefully be remedied.
I'm still not sure who will win, but you can be sure the final margin of victory will not be the same 12 votes it is now.
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THREAD: I have combed through the extensive #NY22 ruling and will break it down here.
Biggest takeaway?? Roughly 1700 ballots not counted the first time will now be included in the count.
Justice DelConte rips all parties involved, says 7 of 8 BOEs made crucial errors 1/
The justice did not seem happy yesterday in court, but I didn't quite see this coming.
"The careless or inadvertent failure to follow the mandate of statute and case law" 2/
Before this gets picked up nationally and by conspiracy theorists, note this section from Justice DelConte clearly stating there is no allegations of fraud at this time 3/
While the #NY22 campaign filings were generic today, some of the counties submitted particularly interesting ones.
The Oneida County BOE for example says it’s open to a full recanvass of absentee/affidavit/overseas ballots, something neither campaign has asked for @WBNG12News
Another one to pay attention to was Oswego County today.
Down in part 7, the filing mentions “voting machine issues in Constantia Districts 1 and 3 and Williamstown” which caused some ballots to be had counted.
First I’ve heard of this
The final particularly interesting one comes courtesy of Herkimer County.
It appears that a new county Democratic Elections Commissioner was sworn in on Tuesday.
Herkimer of course has had to revise its vote counts several times.
NEW: Both candidates in #NY22 trade shots through new legal filings submitted today. Using a variety of reasons, both campaigns claim what the other is trying to do is against the law.
The filings today are counter arguments to the memos and proposed orders to show cause yesterday.
The Tenney campaign has argued the counties should certify the results of the election, while the Brindisi campaign has argued every attempt to fix BOE errors should be made 2/
The Brindisi legal team filed first today, and tried to offer a stinging rebuke of Tenney's attempts to have the result certified. Certainly started out swinging 3/
Back to your regularly scheduled #NY22 programming! No new files yet, still waiting for that 4pm deadline.
Instead, I want to do a short thread breaking down how the Brindisi legal team suggests we fix #StickyGate 1/
This comes courtesy of their order to show cause filing yesterday. The first step is trying to remove the "stickiness" of the situation by individually labelling each of the objected ballots as required by state law. Easier said than done we'll find 2/
The reason this is so difficult?? We don't know why some of these votes were objected to, or if they were specifically included in the original counts.
Why don't we know this?? Because counties used sticky notes to annotate these ballots, and those notes fell off in transit 3/
Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announces there are entire counties in PA without available ICU beds due to COVID-19 @WBNG12News
Dr. Levine says the National Guard has been deployed into longterm care facilities to help fight the virus.
Dr. Levine says in an emergency, beds can be found for the ICUs.
One resource that can’t materialize last minute?? Staffing, which she says will be the biggest challenge to fighting the virus and implementing a vaccine.