Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Affidavit votes disqualified by the Board of Elections pushed Katz's slim victory
NBC News
Eighty percent of the approximately 2,800 affidavit ballots cast in the 2019 Democratic primary for Queens DA were disqualified — but it’s not clear how many of the voided voters still don't realize their ballots didn’t count.
The I-Team obtained a list of more than 2,300 disqualified voters.
Though the list was not confirmed by the Board of Elections, two sources close to the ongoing court challenge between Tiffany Caban and Melinda Katz did confirm the list.
Some voters on the list said the Board of Elections has so far failed to notify them — even as a high stakes court battle proceeds to determine if Katz's narrow victory over Caban should stand.
“I have not received any such notification (or any mail otherwise) from the Board of Elections,” said Sophie Epstein, a registered Democrat who said her vote for Tiffany Caban disqualified because she failed to check the “Democrat” box on her affidavit ballot.
Mark Miller, a long-time Astoria resident, told the I-Team his vote for Caban was voided after a poll worker advised him to cast an affidavit ballot at the wrong polling place.
“We should be finding reasons to count the votes, right? Not reasons to not count the votes,” Miller said.
10 comments:
Hey all you snot-nosed AOC punks. Don't mess with us or you too will get your asses handed to you.
Somewhere “Boss” Tweed is smiling...
Stalin" It is not important who votes, but who COUNTS the votes".
Katz was never part of the machine sorry folks She was on the other side.
"Katz was never part of the machine..." LOL What are you smoking?
Katz is the Machine
Boss Tweed is not smiling. He's laughing his ass off at what's become of his once fair city.
Katz qualified as DA? This is a miscarriage of justice - why is Queens stuck in the past century? The world has moved on and sooner or later Queens will too.
Believe me, there is a real disconnect within the population the developer-campaign donors are bringing in here to fill their buildings. This group is better educated and more worldly than the inbred lo-IQ set they are replacing.
It will be ironic that it will be the tool to finally pull down one of the last real old time political machines in the country.
How could a lead of over 1,000 votes disappear just like that? All of a sudden practically all of the absentee and affidavit ballots go for Katz? Something smells. And it seems to emanate from Bolz, Sweeney, Reich, and the Queens Democrat organization. The stench goes back years. I don't agree with Caban's positions, but at least she has had experience with the criminal law. Katz has no such experience, and her smarmy display of self-satisfaction is disgusting.
Nassau County GOP machine is more of a true machine than the Queens Dems.
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