From an email I just got from Mike Foley's campaign:
Ok, here's what I know at the moment about my election for State Rep in the 14th District. The Board of Elections finished the precinct counts last Thursday, and I was up by 10 votes. They began counting the absentee ballots and did a preliminary count last night. When that was done, I was down by 115 total votes.
I checked in with the BOE today. There are still 262 absentee ballots not counted, plus some military and provisional ballots.
At this point it seems unlikely that I will prevail, however I am going to push the BOE to make sure they counted all of the votes correctly. To this point they have not inspired a lot of confidence. I'm probably wrong, but my gut tells me that there is just something not right in the counting of the absentees. I really worked those hard and felt like I would prevail once they were counted. I was shocked and still pretty numb about losing those ballots by 125 so far.
The magic number for an automatic recount is .5 difference between the top vote getter and the second place finisher. I'm hoping the number gets down that low once the rest of the absentees are counted, but even if they aren't, I will seriously look at asking for a recount on my own.