Results continue to roll in from the Republican primary in the 99th Assembly District, and challenger Steve Katz has widened his lead.
Ahead by 241 votes Wednesday with all but five Westchester districts reporting, he is now up by 253 votes. One district still remains untallied. According to the Westchester County Board of Elections, the missing districts were from all three towns in the county’s portion of the district.
Though Katz was ready to declare victory Tuesday night, the party’s nominee, Jim Borkowski, said he would hold out until all the votes were tallied.
Either way, Borkowski will remain in the race on the Conservative line in November. Katz has the Independence line. Attorney Brendan Tully of Yorktown is the Democrat in the race. The 99th covers seven towns in northern Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.
Here are the updated results so far…
Dutchess (Pawling)
Borkowski – 246
Katz – 325
Write-in – 1
Putnam (Carmel, Southeast and Patterson)
Borkowski – 2,144
Katz – 2,137
Write-in – 3
Westchester (Yorktown, Somers and North Salem) 98% of districts reporting
Borkowski – 1,725
Katz – 1,906
94 Absentee ballots cast
Total – 126 of 127 districts reporting
Borkowski – 4,115
Katz – 4,368
Updated to note absentee ballots and write-in votes cast where available.
6 Comments
Jim, giving the fact that you again fell short in this race, why don’t you submit a letter to the BOE stating that you’re moving and spare yourself the agony of yet another defeat in November.
How many absentee and other paper ballots?
According to Westchester BoE and Putnam BoE websites, all the absentee/paper ballots are reflected in the count above. More absentee ballots could come in the mail, but obviously not enough – if there were 500, Borkowski would have to win 400 (80%) in order to overtake Katz, which is obviously impossible.
Time for Borkowski to take a powder. Last time, he purportedly accepted the Working Families Party (Acorn) endorsement; then this time, gets in the way of definitively burying the ultra- liberal Tully by grasping at the Conservative endorsement. Time for him to get in line or evaporate. And these third-party groups, state and local, better wise up before their self-serving methodology is totally abandoned by the electorate and they dissolve into the dustbin of history.
Apples to Apples:
Putnam County
Ball 3,995
Hayworth 3,804
Leibell 3,206
Ball actually ended up with the worst job of the three, I think I’d much rather be a Congresswoman or County Executive, wouldn’t you, I bet he wishes he could have that one back seeing as he is the most popular elected official in Putnam County…
Minor parties should not be able to cross endorse..it
opens the door to political extortion..mike kaplowitz
for example was endorsed by the independence party for
state senate..while the westchester county chairman
of that party is on the state senate payroll..isn’t there
something wrong with that..abolishing cross endorsements
would solve the problem..rick lazio has the conservative
party line while paladino has the republican line..now
the conservative party may in fact not get the 50m votes
required to remain in business.watch them give lazio
a judicial nomination in long island just to get him
off the ballot