"A judge in New York on Friday rejected Democrats’ claims that voting machine irregularities undercounted hundreds of votes for Rep. Ted Brindisi, a decision that means Republican challenger Claudia Tenney will be certified the winner of the election.
... After Tenney’s certification, the House will have 221 Democrats, 212 Republicans and two vacant seats."
Lawyers for Brindisi had called for a hand recount of the 325,000-plus votes cast in the House race, arguing that irregularities with voting machines used in Oswego County had undercounted hundreds or thousands of votes for Brindisi.
... In a decision handed down on Friday afternoon, Supreme Court Judge Scott J. DelConte rejected Elias’s claims.
He directed the New York state board of elections to certify the results of the 22nd district vote.
“No votes cast by dead people were counted,” DelConte wrote.
“The only claim of voter fraud … was rejected on its face for insufficient proof.”
“There are no unresolved discrepancies with the machine counts from the Boards’ December canvasses, and there were no discrepancies with the machine counts in the manual audit tallies from the Boards’ November canvasses,” he continued.
Tenney leads Brindisi by 109 votes, DelConte said."
