The Totals Are In; Yossi Backs Down

The count is completed in NY-07, with absentees and paper affidavits included, and you can review them below. In the AD-50, where the Hasidim totaled perhaps over 90 percent of the votes, Erik Dilan - supported by the Zalanites and Rabbi David Niederman and his associated Khilos - received 6,206 votes, versus 3,774 for Nydia Velazquez. The total of votes counted there were 10,099, and Erik Dilan received 61.45 percent, versus 37.37 for Velazquez. The rest were scattered between the other candidates or recorded none of the names on the ballots.

BTW, the new numbers shaved down 999 votes from Dan O'Connor from one district. In AD 52 ED 82 he now has 1 vote, versus 1000 in the previous BoE reports, correcting a mistake Gateway pointed out more than once.

Yossi Gestetner, who on election night declared a major power shift in Williamsburg, where he had the Aranites by 46 percent of the vote, finally backed down. His excuse about the 450 votes mistakenly added to Velazquez, doesn't account for the all his exaggeration. With that mistake, it was still 57/43, as you can see it here. Also, in his header, Yossi is rounding the results to give the Aranites 40 percent. He's still off with a few percentage points, but this is due to the fact the he wrote it before he had the affidavits and absentees, and he acknowledges that. 

All in all, there was no major change in the Hasidic Williamsburg voting patterns, especially given the fact that Velazquez did a bit better in the Hispanic areas than Dilan, meaning that whatever non-Jewish votes it was in the district broke stronger for her, so Dilan was a bit stronger in the Jewish areas than seen on surface.

The only big change is the huge turnout, that totaled a third of all the votes in a congressional primary and the overwhelming majority in their own Assembly district. I would declare the AD-50 as a Super-Zalanite assembly district. 
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