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Related: About this forumNew York Attorney General Investigating Primary Voting Irregularities
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) announced on Wednesday that his office is opening an investigation into alleged voter irregularities during New Yorks Tuesday primary.
About 120,000 Democrats suspiciously disappeared from voter rolls in Brooklyn, according to NPR. An analysis of voter data by WNYC found that none of New York Citys other boroughs saw such a significant decline in the number of Democrats and just seven of the states 62 counties saw a decrease. The head of the New York City Board of Elections said so many voters were dropped in a small time frame because retirements and illness of staff members at the agency caused it to fall behind in maintaining its voter rolls, and it purged a high number of voters as it caught up with the backlog.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who lost the New York Democratic primary to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called the irregularities absurd and a Sanders campaign spokesman described them as a disgrace on Wednesday.
I am deeply troubled by the volume and consistency of voting irregularities, both in public reports and direct complaints to my offices voter hotline, which received more than one thousand complaints in the course of the day yesterday, Schneiderman said in a statement. Thats why today, we have opened an investigation into alleged improprieties in yesterdays voting by the New York City Board of Elections. If necessary, we will initiate inquiries in additional areas of the State where voting irregularities appeared unusually high.
Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy, and if any New Yorker was illegally prevented from voting, I will do everything in my power to make their vote count and ensure that it never happens again, he continued.
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer (D) announced on Tuesday that he would audit the Board of Elections. Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) described what had happened as a purge and said the errors indicated the board needs major reforms.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-voter-problems-investigation_us_5717ec85e4b0479c59d6e761
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Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Turn CO Blue
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Stringer is a super delegate who has pledged to back Hillary Clinton in her bid for the Democratic nomination.
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We need IT professionals and due diligence accountants to do any type of audit.
Having a politician perform an audit like asking your lawyer to do your open heart surgery.
It is a simple matter to go back and pull the backups of the voter files from September, and perform some queries and comparisons against the current version of the database records. Then,query for changes to the field for the voter's party affiliation and run some reports on the history logs to find anomalies or patterns in the history logs.
Karma13612
(4,553 posts)slight conflict of interest!
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)she has tentacles everywhere.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)They think we're stupid! Stringer needs to recuse himself and BERNIE should hire an INDEPENDENT AUDIT! This is such BULLSHIT.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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