Flying way below the radar today is a special election in NY to fill a vacancy in NY-26. That's in Western NY out in the more rural areas before you come to Buffalo and Niagra. The main candidates are Republican Jane Corwin and Democrat Kathy Hochul. It's a nominally Republican district but there are a couple of wrinkles that are making this one interesting.
First, it's a special election so turnout will be low and that always throws things off.
Second, there is a third-party candidate (Jack Davis) who has registered as a "Tea Party", despite his previous runs for various offices under the Democrat label. Mr. Davis has been drawing extra votes, although it's not quite clear as to whether he has been drawing more from the right or the left. Either way, he's playing spoiler to someone and could give Independents enough of an outlet to let it be a dead draw between registered Republican and Democrats that show up.
Polls in NY generally close around 9 PM but it will probably be several hours before enough votes are tallied to get an idea of who won.
*UPDATE*
Ms. Hochul (D) defeats Ms. Corwin (R). Ms. Corwin conceded relatively early. Apparently, she made some very bad assumptions about this campaign.
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