Republicans challenge student votes
The race in the 11th State Senate District race remains unresolved. But a new twist has emerged in the fight over who actually won the district. The lawyers for the incumbent Republican senator, Frank Padavan, have challenged the votes of several students at St. John’s University in Queens.
The unresolved State Senate contest between Senator Frank Padavan, a Republican, and his Democratic challenger, James F. Gennaro, moves on Tuesday into a Queens courtroom, where nearly a dozen college students have been subpoenaed to verify their residences.
Republican lawyers have challenged the votes of students, mostly from St. John’s University, saying that they filled out affidavit ballots with addresses that were not their permanent residences. In the paper ballot count, Mr. Padavan is leading by about 600 votes, but about 1,000 more ballots remained to be counted and the validity of an additional 2,000 must still be reviewed.
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