It took nearly three weeks, but the result, for State Senate Democrats, was worth the wait.
Despite pronounced and expensive efforts by law-enforcement unions and others to loosen the party's hold on the State Senate, that appeared from the Election Night results to have succeeded, the party secured a veto-proof super-majority following the counting of absentee ballots in some races.
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