I'm not a math wizard but if Ms DeRiggi-Whitton is ahead by 31 votes and there are 22 ballots left to be contested, wouldn't that make her the winner?

I was very surprised how Robert Germino ran his campaign. Delia DeRiggi-Whitton walked my neighborhood (or tried to until bad weather came). Sent a personal note to my youngest sister, who votes by absentee ballet due to being an expat, asking for her vote and called my mother and talked to her personally asking for her support. I never heard a thing from Robert Germino and it is not because of my party affiliation. I have been an independent since I first voted in 1980 and candidates from all parties are always courting me.

@Robert Interesting observation.

I smell a rat!

I see that many people have voted out of their parties to try to bring in Germino and Meli. What this means is, the voters who seem to be educated in the real "whats happening" in the 18th district are fed up and want to get new blood in the system. the diehards old voters tend to just stick to their party no matter what. To me (being a independent and have voted on both sides of the fence when I felt it was appropriate to do so) it seems that people really arent paying attention. For example, I know of a wonderful lady who is a haircutter in town. She didnt know who to vote for and her family just ordered her/told her to vote Democrate. Now why is she even voting if hasnt been following exactly what is going on in the community? People shouldnt just vote and do a "Enie, Meenie, Myne, Mo"!!

I met a spanish family at the voting school; they didnt speak english - and were helping each other on whom to pick-they kept saying "democracy" - like they thought picking the democrate is what is meant as "democracy". How horrible is that; we have people who cant even speak english - and think the word democrate means democracy. Like I said before, people need to be educated! and maybe next time we get Spanish speaking people to go out and speak to these spanish people who cant speak a word of english (which is a huge pet-peeve for me) that voting democrate does not have anything to do with the word "democracy", I experienced that same thing 4 years ago with another family too....so something has to be fixed!

Again, Suozzi does not own a home.......... He pays rent every month and doesnt have to worry about taxes going up....... People still voting for a man who pays less than $2,000 a month for rent - in total........who knows what he pays- maybe even $1,500 a month...............the fact is, he doesnt feel the effect of our taxes being raised every year!

By the way, RG - Tiffany and I are hoping your Mom continues to get better.

Rob Germino's people, whoever they are, ran a terrible campaign. DDW was out front months before Germino with signs and appearances. His mailings were ridiculous. Just a bunch of political speak that made no difference to me in Glen Cove. Since he had no record to run on he should have taken DDW's record apart with a finetooth comb. But he never laid a glove on her. It shows a lack of political maturity. How did he do in Glen Cove?

I like cheese!

Tess, did I miss some changes as to whom may vote? I understood that you need to be a US citizen either born or naturalized in order to vote. And if naturalized at the final citizenship proceeding one needs to demonstrate a working knowledge of the English language. I know and had to back in '68 just before swearing in the USAF.

If people dont have the command of the English language, I would believe they should not vote - since I sincerely feel the people who should just vote are people who are very familiar to what each candidate is standing for!! How many people do I see coming to the polls that don't speak a word of english - ok, maybe 10 words if at best.................so how can they truly make a good idea on who they truly want to vote for..........not saying "democracy" and vote democrate only cause the word (to them) might actually mean - democracy..............when in reality democracy goes with both sides of the ticket - Republican and Democratic! ............... So yes, I think Americans should vote only if they are educated in what a candidate is running on - even if that means for the politician is running have volunteers go out into different communities and speak the language of the people (ex, Spanish community - Spanish, Italian community - Italian, Greek community - Greek, etc etc etc).............. So now I hope I made my thoughts clearer...........