The Steuben Courier's election wrap-up quotes Randy Kuhl on Monroe County voters:
"There's a big split in the enrollment there. There are more unregistered voters, we call the block voters. They aren't Republican. They aren't Democrats and they are not independents. We have to get them the information on what we've done... I'm kind of an unknown quantity up there. There's not much media coverage. They're never on the weekly media calls." Kuhl addresses the local media in a special conference almost every Thursday the House is in session. "We just have to educate the people in Monroe County," he said Tuesday night.
I think he meant (and probably said) "blank" not "block" voters, but he got two big things right. First, Monroe's vote is more volatile than the South of the 29th, due to blanks. Second, because the Monroe media has to cover four representatives, none of them end up getting much coverage.
At the end of WHAM's televised election coverage, long-time Rochester anchor Don Alhart reported that he spoke with a number of voters who discovered who represented them when they entered the voting booth. This reflects the conventional wisdom that the recent confusing re-districting has yet to fully register with a number of Monroe voters. Unfortunately for Kuhl, the more that Monroe gets to know him, the less they want to vote for him.