Resources promised under N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order were never provided, causing absentee ballots to 'overwhelm' the system in the uncalled House election in the 22nd Congressional District, Claudia Tenney argues.
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Steve well, candidates from one
Steve, well: candidates from one
of the Countrys last undecided
house, races, New Yorks, 22nd
congressional district are
headed to court this week after
a judge halted the stinks
process amid reports of voting
irregularities.
Despite all this, the democratic
incumbent implied in a tweet
that he won the razor thin
contest
joining us now with the latest
republican congressional
candidate, Claudia Tenney, who is
running to reclaim other
congressional seat
Claudia Good Morning to you
good Morning,
Steve. So your opponent, Anthony
Bran Diseasey, put out a word
within the last forty eight hours that he
was the winner and, in fact, head by thirteen points.
By thirteen points
is he they had Wednesday all
right,
so it looked like he was ahead
by thirteen votes. Thirteen
now this morning, im reading
something from your campaign,
youre ahead by thirteen points
yeah.
These are tentative numbers
and what the people should
understand is that there are
literally hundreds of ballots
that the judge is going to
consider this week that are
disputed ballots.
They are absentees that
objections have been made by the
each of the candidates.
There is about four hundred I plus
there is consideration of
so called affidavit ballots.
Those are ballots for people who
show up at the polls and for
some reason, for an
administrative reason. In some
cases they are not shown as
registered to vote.
In some cases they arent
actually registered to vote
Steve right.
All of this stems back to the
confusion that the fact that
Governor Cuomo did an executive
order in August of this year,
changing all the rules
promising to provide aid and
resources to all these boards of
elections,
and none of that was done,
and so these people were
overwhelmed with absentee
ballots because of the way the
application online was
unverified.
Steve right,
you know there is a process to
do things like that, where you
change the voting rules and the
requests for mail in ballots, and
that is through the legislature.
It didnt go through the
legislature,
its not a law.
It was an executive, fiat
and thats why we are where we
are where there are all these
challenges.
Claudia one of the miraculous
things that happened in your
race is not only did a
96 year old woman who said she
never voted, looks like she
voted,
but dead people voted in your
race,
yeah
and honestly. This is part of
the problem. When you have no
verification system,
the boards are overwhelmed.
This absentee voting
the mail voting is causing a
huge problem.
Look normally they process
about seven thousand absentee ballots
district wide in a congressional
race.
This time they are processing
over seventy thousand
plus over three thousand, so called
affidavit ballots.
This is unfair to the boards of
elections and they havent been
able to handle it with the
precise guidelines
we are going to court this week,
its undermining voters and the
integrity of our voting process.
We also had one count where
their entire computer system
went down October 15th and never
came back up null election day.
We were hacked
all points to so many
irregularities on a system that
really needs to be looked at and
overhauled, and unfortunately,
Governor Cuomo decided to do
that without the input of e,
the legislature and people, and
really considering the integrity
of our voting process.
As you can see here, im a marine
mom,
our family and many people
throughout our history have
served this nation to protect
our sacred right to a right to
vote and not have that
undermined by a system created
by New York,
its this close race that is
focused on it.
This is why my race has a little
bit of what you are seeing
winner. Take all problems with
voting across the nation
Steve. Indeed,
thanks for letting me talk
about it
Steve, you bet
its a very tight race.
You are ahead by thirteen votes right
now.
We will see how it goes.
You have got your day in court
today and throughout the week
we will keep people posted.
Thank you.
If people want to help its
Claudia for Congress, dot com.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-01.