GOP State Sen. Frank Padavan is back in the 11th District seat he had held for more than 30 years.
But much has changed since he and his Democratic opponent City Councilman James Gennaro faced off on Election Day in November.
The longtime legislator had to really battle for his seat. Even after the Election Day tally [...]
Incumbent State Sen. Frank Padavan, a Queens Republican, is expected to return as a victor to Albany next week following months of recounts and challenges in his race against Democrat James Gennaro, a New York City Council member.
Padavan says the net change in a review of 2,708 invalid ballots shows him winning by 578 votes [...]
Residents of the 11th state Senate district in northeast Queens may be without an Albany representative next month as the legal wrangling over that seat continues.
An appellate court is expected to decide today whether the Board of Elections should resume counting almost 2,000 paper ballots previously marked invalid.
Republicans are expected to appeal any decision that [...]
The battle for the 11th state Senate District seat now being waged in courtrooms and election offices doesn’t look like it will end anytime soon.
But as far as the longtime incumbent, Republican Frank Padavan, is concerned, the race is over. And he is confident he is the winner.
The latest count has Padavan ahead by 580 [...]
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 [...]
A still-undecided state Senate contest in Queens turned ugly Tuesday as Democrats accused Sen. Frank Padavan’s supporters of launching a massive effort to discard paper ballots cast by minority voters.
“They are systematically trying to exclude Asians, Hispanics and Democrats from the count,” said Michael Reich, executive secretary of the Queens Democratic Party.
Preliminary results showed the [...]
According to NY Daily News Elizabeth Benjamin, Frank Padavan’s lead over Councilman Jim Gennaro has shrunk still further from the yesterday’s count of 502 votes to 495, which were cast by machine recanvass.
“The most recent tally, which includes the machine recanvass, emergency ballots (used when the machine breaks down) and votes cast on ballot marking [...]
