Tag: New York City Board of Elections

A report in the New York Times suggestions that scandals at the New York City Board of Elections is undermining confidence in the troubled Agency, even as more and more controversies are triggering allegations of voter suppression. Progress New York/File Photograph

Acting U.S. Attorney mum, as reports raise the renewed spectre of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is keeping quiet after allegations were made of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections.

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At the P.S. 33 elementary school in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, a poll supervisor attended to a registered voter, who was twice denied a ballot during the June 23 Democratic Part primary election. The voter waited over 11 hours to be able to cast an affidavit ballot due to missing pages for local elections and wrong information about the voter's party affiliation. Progress New York

As the Board of Elections tosses absentee ballots, a signaling that the Feds may countenance voter disenfranchisement

As the New York City Board of Elections is reportedly disqualifying a large number of absentee ballots cast, the U.S. Attorney’s Office remains mum.

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