Wednesday, September 10, 2014

DA minor party primary goes to absentees


ABELOVE
A mere three votes separate the two candidates for Rensselaer County District Attorney in the Independence Party primary and it will come down to paper ballots.
At the end of the night Tuesday, with all 82 Election District accounted for, Republican Joel Abelove had 417 votes while Democrat Carmelo Laquidara had 414. There are, however, 212 returned absentee ballots yet to be counted as well as two military ballots. It’s unclear how many affidavits, if any, were turned in at the polling places on Primary Day that not yet counted.
LAQUIDARA
The two are vying for the seat vacant since Rich McNally was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on Jan. 1.
The Independence Party is important to any candidate because there are 7,380 enrolled in Rensselaer County. But, the party with hardly a platform to speak of does have a catchy name that lures voters into pulling the lever on that line thinking they are being independent too.
Coupled with the Conservative Party line, which Abelove also has, the two minor parties can account for up to 15 percent of a major party candidate’s vote total in November.
Laquiadara, the former City of Rensselaer judge who became first assistant DA earlier this year, has the Democratic Party line and fended off a write in campaign to secure the Working Families Party line by a count of 107 to 41.

   

22 comments:

  1. That picture of Uncle Fester never gets old.

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    1. Why are Rensselaer County Republicans so unattractive.

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    2. They really are an ugly bunch

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    3. Mark McGrath is dreamy

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    4. Republicans are an ugly bunch. I'm more convinced than ever that Gorman must be a republican. It's called a dentist Keith.

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    5. Don't forget that picture of Gorman. It looks like the old man is already dead.

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  2. check the signatures

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  3. Mayor Lou will propose a 10% hike in taxes.......keep voting for Dems!

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    1. And Kathy Jimino will propose a 20% hike in taxes to cover the embezzlements and tit jobs she hands out to GOP incompetents.

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    2. 10% are you out of your mind? We will be lucky to get a 10% tax increase.

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  4. When are they opening these forged ballots! LOL

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    1. Who's Mike Bayly and why were so many absentee ballot applications released to him?

      I think it's great that Rich Crist can take so much time from his 100K GOP patronage job to deliver all those absentee ballot applications to folks around the county and then bring them to BOE and then go around to all those people again to deliver ballots and then bring them all back to BOE in time for the primary. He sure is a busy guy. Hard to believe one man can get it all done.

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    2. Maybe Rich Crist should do the absentees like Councilmen John Brown, Loporto, Mcgrath and Campana and just fill out the applications and ballots for the people, it would certainly save time.

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    3. Maybe Rich Crist could threaten to beat the crap out of people if they don't vote absentee and the way he wants. I bet that would work.

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    4. Heard the secret to the GOP's success is they actually get real voters to sign the paperwork. Crazy, huh?

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    5. No checking signatures everyone involved innocent as lambs

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    6. Signatures all get checked at the BOE. Guess the Wade-o-crats got outhustled again.

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  5. I heard Phil's mommy Joan Malone and Carm's campaign manager Ralphie Signoracci collected a whole bushel of absentee ballots. Should be interesting!

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    1. What was up with Joel's clothes at the parade? WTF he is scary looking dude.

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  7. Joel Abelove - prosecutorial misconduct. C'mon joel. Let's talk about the Allen case.

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