The Syracuse-area Congressional seat is one of those 5 or 6 House races still to be decided. Mary Ann Buerkle, a staunchly Anti-Tax/Pro-Defense Republican has expanded her lead slightly in post-election absentee ballot counts.

From Syracuse.com:

Kate Lacey, Cayuga County’s Democratic elections commissioner, said the audit found no problems. The recanvassing, as previously reported, showed that some votes were mistakenly counted from outside of the 25th District to both Maffei and Buerkle. In the end, the correction of the mistake resulted in a net gain of 25 votes for Buerkle, giving her a 684-vote lead over Maffei heading into this week.

Maffei’s campaign declined to discuss specifics of its legal maneuvers on Monday. Dan McNally, Maffei’s campaign manager, said in a brief statement: “The election law provides a process, to insure the integrity of the vote, that every valid vote is counted. We are availing ourselves of that process.”

Buerkle, in an interview Monday, agreed. “All we want is to get all of these eligible votes counted,” she said.

The Democrat County elections commissioner reports that "machine problems" have led to the delayed counting according to MSNBC. The count is likely not to be resolved by Thanksgiving.