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 THE DRAMA BUILDS......NOW WE HAVE TO WAIT TILL SATURDAY..FOR THE FINAL DECISION.............

NEWSDAY SPIN CYCLE

6:52 PM By William Murphy

A Nassau judge has ordered an extraordinary court session for Saturday at which he will decide whether to certify the election results in the Martins-Johnson state Senate race.

The judge gave no hint whether he would certify, not certify, or take any other action, such as ordering a further sampling of paper ballots.

The ruling by Justice Ira Warshawsky came as incumbent Democrat Craig Johnson trailed Republican challenger Jack Martins by about 450 votes with less than 150 paper ballots left to be counted Friday morning.

If Martins prevails, and an incumbent Democrat in a Westchester holds her lead, then Republicans would regain control of the state Senate, 32-30.

However, Johnson’s legal team, headed by Steven Schlesinger, plan to push for a hand count of all 85,000 ballots cast in the race in an attempt to unearth more votes that may have been missed by the new optical scan voting machines.