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Rangel Wrangles 990-Vote Lead After Primary Recount
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Christopher Robbins
Published Jul 8, 2012
Modified Jul 8, 2012
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The hand recount of the Democratic primary in the 13th District is finished, and Rep. Charlie Rangel leads challenger State Senator Adriano Espaillat by 990 votes. The vote was much closer than the initial count of 45-to-40%, but Henry Berger, a "longtime election lawyer," tells Capital's Azi Paybarah that "1,000 is not a close election."
According to the Times, Rangel is waiting for the results to be certified by the BOE before declaring victory. Espaillat's camp is claiming that several hundred ballots were wrongly tossed out, and points to a Daily News report that the BOE official overseeing the recount met privately with Rangel's people on the Saturday before the primary. Regardless of what transpired at the meeting, we can all agree: there's nothing America does better than elections. It appears that it'll be at least another two years before Charlie Rangel will end his career "with dignity."
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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