Swing districts in New York came out strong for Democrats this election, with races in the lower Hudson Valley, upstate, and Long Island mostly turning blue.
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler called his challenger, Army veteran Cait Conley, a Democrat, on election night to concede the race in the 17th Congressional District. In Westchester County, part of the district, ballot scanners went down on Election Day due to a printing error on ballots, leaving 90,000 ballots to be counted Wednesday. Even so, Lawler said, “When all of the votes are counted in Westchester, it’s going to be pretty clear we will be short.”…