On December 20, the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest state court in that state, heard arguments in Johnson v Martins, over whether there should be a recount in one very close State Senate race. The New York law on recounts was written back when New York used mechanical voting machines, and does not seem very useful now that New York votes on paper ballots that are scanned by vote-counting machines. See this story. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the news.
The race is in the 7th State Senate district. The first count shows Republican Jack Martins with 451 more votes than Democrat Craig Johnson, out of 85,000 ballots. The web page for the New York State Board of Elections has official general election returns in general from last month’s election, but shows no totals for this race since it is still uncertain. The Court is likely to rule by December 21. UPDATE: on December 20, the Court ruled that no recount should be held. Thanks to Rick Hasen’s ElectionLawBlog for this news.
ANTI-Democracy indirect minority rule gerrymanders in ALL States since 4 July 1776.
Half the votes in half the New Age gerrymander districts since 1964 = about 25 percent minority rule.
Much worse primary math.
P.R. and App.V. — before it is too late.