NY-23 is not over yet!

It turns out that 3rd-party Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman's vote totals were significantly miscounted-- and there are still 10K absentee ballots to go.

Even more bizarro, Democrat Bill Owens was already sworn in, so if the outcome was over-turned, he would have erroneously had a big part in the House passage of its health care reform last week.

From NPR (hat tip: Doug Hoffman's campaign)...

On election night, NY 23 went for Owens over Hoffman by just 5,335 votes, the first time a Republican lost the seat in more than a century. With 93 percent of the vote counted, Hoffman conceded, and Owens was quickly sworn in, on Friday -- just in time to cast a what-turned-out-to-be-a-much-needed-vote for the Democrats' health-care bill on Saturday night.

Now we learn that the vote count in NY 23 is not over. And not only that, the state has yet to certify the election.

The Syracuse Post-Standard's Mark Weiner reports that a recanvassing of the votes in the 11-county district shows Owens' lead down to 3,026 votes -- 66,698 to 63,672.

And that's not all. There are still [10,200] absentee ballots to be counted....

And while there's no way of knowing whether the absentee ballots could reverse the result, there is nonetheless that possibility...

And what if in the end Hoffman is declared the winner? Does that negate Owens' vote for the health-care bill? No. He was duly and legally sworn in. Wow.

Stay tuned!