MEDIA UPDATE: After initially shrugging off this story tip, the largest paper in our region, The Albany Times-Union, has come around with a decent report on the situation:
HUMOROUS UPDATE: The Tedisco legal team has apparently been complaining that the reason the count is going so slowly is that they have to access data on the web, but the County won't allow outside access to its internet system, so they have to use slow satellite cards. But take a close look at this photo on the front page at [ CCScoop ]. Check out what's on the screen of the guy with the laptop: He's not accessing an online database -- that's the Drudge Report!
Much more after the jump...