A rare human error transferring tabulated votes to the computer results has given hope to GOP challenger Randy Altshuler in NY-1: Officials in Suffolk County said the error, discovered Friday, shifted several thousand votes and erased Bishop's 3,500 vote margin. That put Republican challenger Randy Altshuler ahead by just under 400 votes in New York's 1st Congressional District. Bishop is seeking a fifth term in the district, which includes many of New York's beach communities.Board of Elections Commissioner Wayne Rogers told the Associated Press the original numbers came in by telephone on election night and "must have been transcribed incorrectly" and fed into the computer system as figures were relayed through the system by intermediaries. The error turned up in a routine check of voting machine memory cards.It's not over. Some 9,000 absentee ballots have yet to the counted, the AP said.Politico is reporting that the new tally gives Altshuler a 392 vote lead with those...(Read Full Post)