Allies of Hiram Monserrate have lost a last-minute bid to have a polling site reestablished for the Democratic primary in LeFrak City in Queens, where the convicted felon enjoys broad support.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Andrea Masley ruled earlier this week that it was too late for her to move a polling site back to LeFrak, where New Yorkers had cast their votes for 50 years.
But she criticized the Board of Elections for moving the voting site from LeFrak to two other locations outside of the housing complex, writing that "moving poll sites is no joke" and that the timing of the change had not yet been properly explained.
"This court is confounded by the BOE's decision to move 6,071 voters to two new voting sites," Masley wrote.
In May, the Board of Elections announced new sites three-quarters of a mile and one-third of a mile away from the LeFrak complex, saying the original site did not meet Americans With Disabilities Act standards.
5 comments:
Whatever you think of Hiram (I think we don't need returning thugs and felons to represent us), this move smells of politics.
This is frightening in both aspects that the Board of Elections is blatantly disenfranchising voters by inconveniencing them and that there is a huge base for Hiram.
Moya is going to lose. (this is not an endorsement for Hiram.)
The Queens Machine has struck again
>Sees a wrong
>Calls out a wrong
>refuses to right it
Is this the opposite of Judicial Activism?
We dont need Monster Rat representing us!!!
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