As voting machines are checked, Spano's lead shrinks
By JIM FITZGERALD
Associated Press Writer
November 8, 2004, 7:03 PM EST
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- After the first hours of a two-week vote recount, Democrats claimed Monday that their candidate for the state Senate from Yonkers had wiped out almost all of her unofficial deficit and moved within 288 votes of the powerful Republican incumbent, Nicholas Spano.
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