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The Brooklyn Democratic Party submitted paperwork with at least two forged signatures to the city Board of Elections as part of a bid to knock fellow Democrats off June primary ballots, a grassroots political organization alleges.
On Thursday, Rep Your Block, a volunteer organization, lodged a complaint with the board, citing sworn affidavits from two registered Democrats in Brownsville and East New York who said the signatures on ballot challenges to candidates filed in their names weren’t theirs.
The “filing of these objections with your agency amounts to the criminal act of filing a false instrument,” the complaint to the BOE states. “These objections and any resulting specifications should be dismissed by your agency.”
Rep Your Block, which aims to get more residents to participate in the borough’s Democratic party, also communicated to THE CITY concerns about the validity of at least a half dozen other signatures submitted on formal objections to candidates’ ballot petitions filed with the board.
They point to a similarity in the handwriting among the signatures, obvious discrepancies between the submitted signatures and voter signatures already on file at the Board of Election, and even misspellings of some of the names.
“We just want to be a part of our own political party. It shouldn’t be that hard. And to have to go to a criminal end to block us is just shocking,” said Maggie Moore, campaign director for Rep Your Block. “It’s really, really unfortunate and disappointing.”
The flagged challenges were among dozens linked to the Brooklyn Democratic Party targeting the ballot petitions of nearly 200 candidates who are seeking party positions.
Reon Sealey, 21, writes his name in a hasty, hard-to-read scribble. So on Friday, when reporters from THE CITY visited his Brownsville, Brooklyn, apartment, he was surprised to see a document with a clear cursive signature purporting to be his — and misspelling his last name, without the second “e.”
The document is an official filing submitted to the city Board of Elections, aimed at knocking a Democratic candidate running for a low-level party position off the June primary ballot.
“This is not my signature, 100% it’s not,” said the young man, wearing a hoodie on a windy day outside his apartment building.
His upstairs neighbor, Osasogie Airhiavbere, told THE CITY she too didn’t sign that form, which showed a tidy version of her signature right beside Sealey’s.
“It’s definitely fraud, and it’s not good,” said Airhiavbere, a 38-year-old administrative staffer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The neighbors join two other registered voters in Brownsville and East New York who swore in affidavits last week that their signatures were forged on similar election-related documents, THE CITY previously reported.
All four of the residents’ contested signatures appear on ballot objection forms that list a top attorney for the Brooklyn Democratic Party as the point of contact.
The two affidavits alleging fraud formed the basis of an official complaint filed with the New York City Board of Elections last week by Rep Your Block, a volunteer organization that helps Brooklyn residents run for county committee seats.
29 comments:
Democrats cheating in an election??? Gosh.
Is the 'cabal' of left-wing forces seeking to wrest power from the people ?
"It's not the Vote that counts, its Who counts the Votes."
Joseph Stalin
Remember what President Donald John Trump said ? It's not me they are after, but YOU, that he is just in the way !
Now if this doesn't WAKE people up...I dont know what will.
"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means." Georges Bernanos
Democrat donors don't want you to think about this !
More people need to listen to those revealing the truth.
Logic over emotions & Speaking truth to power !
No surprise here, that's exactly what communists do once they get power.
Hitler and Russian leaders did the same, after a wile they actually had the power to kill anybody not on board with them.
Good job New York voters, just wait till they tell come with lists of socialist demands for your own homes, cars, IRAs, trusts and bank accounts like they do in Scandinavian northern Europe.
Its already started with all these bike lanes and homeless shelters rammed down our throats at city hall gunpoint.
The democrats have turned New York City into the worlds toilet shitpile in such record time it succeeds anything seen in the history of the planet.
This including the black plague, potato famine, the fall of Roman empire and the dinosaur wipeout.
Good job dumb sheep NY voters, yall about to get your heads chopped off and you cant even realize it!! Do you really think communists and city hall will respect the US Constitution and your rights?
Pull your heads out your asses and sandpits !!
How else will the Big guy get his 10% ?
What a desperate and pathetic party.
THEY NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE LAWS SHOULDN'T JUST BE FOR CITIZENS BUT FOR POLITICIANS TOO IN ACTUALITY THEY SHOULD BE HELD TO A HIGHER LEVEL BECAUSE OF THEIR STATUS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Please let all of these clowns be indicted, right now.
John Durham REMOVES ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE From 1,455 Documents Held by Latest Indictment.
RICO !
@NPC_doofus, RE: "Democrats cheating in an election??? Gosh"
Sure they are cheating, corrupt and dishonest. But you'd have to be a brainwashed Trumpanzee like a few of the previous posters to believe that the other side aren't just as or more corrupt.
The only difference is that the TrumpTurds have enshrined corruption into law and placed a perfect SCOTUS to keep it that way.
Prove me wrong ...
Yes, a stupid illegal act. It is hardly surprising in NYC, either by Republicans or Democrats. Stop making it look like corruption is a Democratic party thing. Republicans routinely also forge signatures and commit all other types of election fraud. The partisan responses to this issue are idiotic.
But it's okay, they're Black and they're allowed to break the rules
I love the man's black supremacy sweater.
"THEY NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE"
Soon, Just saying will soon get you (and your IP address) investigated and on a terrorist watch list.
Knock Knock, just like Hitler's gestapo or KGB.
Status as public service also means nothing, swarm to protect/uphold --out the window or flushed down the toilet like the 2nd amendment in New York. This because the people doing this don't follow the rules and principals they preach!!
Nobody at city hall, media department of education will hold them accountable because all are in bed together and WANT communism!!
Its just like Trump warned only now its so rampant, blatant and ballsy we actually see proof its really happening.
Thank you all the dumb sheep !!
DemOrats are always getting caught but the Sheeple vote in more.
Another Corrupt NYC judge Sylvia Ash sentenced to 15 months for obstructing justice !
https://nypost.com/2022/04/20/ex-nyc-judge-sentenced-to-15-months-for-obstructing-justice/
They lie & their cronies swear to it.
Deplorable said...
Can Potato Head pardon them all?
Pity that democrats are lowering themselves to the same crooked low level as the Trumpanzees. Sad
Yup, it's a job at the end of the day. Getting signatures to get candidates on the ballot. Remember the mother and daughter who wrote DEAD people on the ballot petitions? The Democrats stood outside a building and wrote down all the names on the directory, didn't bother to get signatures. No one was charged with fraud.
...SUAVE!!
If they have Dominion they has nothing to worry about. They already won right ?
This should become the new Golden Rule: If a Democrat accuses someone of something, then they are the ones doing it. Prove Me Wrong...
Freedom of speech and civilian ownership of firearms is liberal. Prohibition of free speech and civilian ownership of firearms is authoritarian. Please focus on the up/down axis as well as the left right paradigm. Please call the authoritarian left the authoritarian left instead of Liberals when necessary. Pretty please with sugar on top.
Why don't they just wipe off everyone they don't like from the voter registry, just the Putinists do down south?
@"Why don't they just wipe off everyone they don't like from the voter registry, just the Putinists do down south? "
Better yet, why don't they outlaw words they don't like, just like "Florida Man".
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