Claudia Tenney

NY would count absentee votes faster under bill

By MARINA VILLENEUVEJune 9, 2021 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York election workers would have to start counting absentee ballots earlier under legislation that passed the state Senate Wednesday.

Lawmakers, including Sen. Mike Gianaris, say the state must prevent another election year like 2020, when delays, litigation and mistakes by election boards who faced a flood of absentee ballots led to days, weeks and in some instances months of confusion over election results in New York.

Federal officials: Voters’ rights violated in NY House race

March 25, 2021 GMT

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice said county officials in central New York who failed to process thousands of registration applications and improperly rejected affidavit ballots violated the rights of voters in a congressional election won by Republican Rep...

GOP’s Tenney, who won House seat by 109 votes, is sworn in

By MARINA VILLENEUVEFebruary 11, 2021 GMT

Republican Claudia Tenney of New York was sworn in Thursday as a member of Congress, reclaiming a seat she lost two years ago and then regained — barely — after one of the nation’s most protracted vote counts...

Brindisi concedes after Tenney’s narrow House win certified

By MICHAEL HILLFebruary 8, 2021 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi conceded Monday that it was “time to close the book on this election," hours after New York officials certified Republican Claudia Tenney's razor-thin victory in the nation’s last undecided congressional race...

Judge rules Republican Tenney won last open US House race

By MARINA VILLENEUVEFebruary 6, 2021 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge ruled Friday that Republican Claudia Tenney defeated U.S. Rep...

House race up in air as county finds 55 uncounted ballots

By MARINA VILLENEUVEDecember 2, 2020 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nearly a month after Election Day, a county in New York on Tuesday said it had discovered a small batch of uncounted ballots with the potential to sway the outcome of one of the nation's closest battles for a seat in Congress...