As the dust settles from Tuesday’s Election Day and the methodical absentee ballot count process proceeds, some across the political spectrum are playing the blame game. The president’s blaming illegal voting, New York’s governor is blaming New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio for downstate losses, while western Ramapo and Orange County Assemblyman Karl Brabenec says it’s the state Democrats who passed criminal justice and bail reform packages that did it to themselves…
Locally, two state-level races have yet to be decided. Pearl River Republican Mike Lawler holds a lead against incumbent Suffern Democrat Ellen Jaffee in the Assembly race, while Montebello Republican Bill Weber has a narrower lead for David Carlucci’s Senate seat over Nyack Democrat Elijah Reichlin-Melnick. Carlucci says waiting for the results is taking too long, and absentee ballot counting needs to improve…
The county clerk’s race is also a close one that will be decided by absentee ballots.