A special election held last night to replace disgraced ex-Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger was too close to call, and the official outcome might not be known for weeks, officials said this morning.
Early today, Republican David Storobin was leading Democratic Councilman Lew Fidler by a razor-thin 120 votes out of more than 20,000 cast.
Storobin garnered 10,756 votes to 10,636 for Fidler, with 100 percent of the machine-cast votes in, according an unofficial tally.
But there were 757 paper ballots still to be counted.
It’s so close that it will probably take two recounts to decide said.
The race in the heavily Jewish Brooklyn district was held to replace Kruger, who was convicted of corruption and had to forfeit his seat.
Each candidate claimed to be more supportive of Jewish issues than the other.
Storobin recycled a Fidler quote from 2008, when the councilman said he was a “bacon-and-eggs kind of Jew.”
Storobin said the comment showed Fidler did not care for conservative and Orthodox Jews.
Fidler also got hammered for his support of gay marriage, an unpopular position in the district.
His campaign at one point bizarrely linked Sorobin, a Russian immigrant Jew, to Nazi skinheads.