{"id":288611,"date":"2021-07-01T01:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fix-the-nyc-board-of-elections-or-face-endless-mayhem\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T01:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:49:15","slug":"fix-the-nyc-board-of-elections-or-face-endless-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fix-the-nyc-board-of-elections-or-face-endless-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fix the NYC Board of Elections or face endless mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Fix the NYC Board of Elections or face endless mayhem<\/strong>”
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Here\u2019s the silver lining in the latest grand screwup by the city\u2019s Board of Elections: By inadvertently including 135,000 test ballots in Tuesday\u2019s preliminary report on results of the June 22 Democratic primary, the BOE all but ensured it won\u2019t make that same <\/em>mistake in a few weeks when it releases the final tally, supposedly by July 12. <\/p>\n

But it could still botch something else<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yes, this was the first citywide tally under the city\u2019s new ranked-choice voting system, with software the BOE is plainly still getting a handle on. But that prompts the question: Why didn\u2019t anyone look carefully at the numbers and spot check them against the raw election night totals and so discover the glaring discrepancies?<\/p>\n

Heck, why even offer a public not-at-all-final tally before you\u2019ve actually made sure you\u2019ve ironed out every glitch? Why not do the responsible thing and wait until all the votes are tallied?<\/p>\n

Under state law, the BOE is run by, and for, political hacks \u2014 that\u2019s why. Heck, some of the politicians now pointing fingers over this mess surely have patronage hires working somewhere at the BOE. <\/p>\n

The board\u2019s current executive director, Michael Ryan, is general<\/a>ly thought a competent fellow, but he\u2019s out on medical leave. That left his deputy, Dawn Sandow, in charge; at least one fellow Republican official calls her a \u201cdisaster\u201d and unqualified to run a large agency.<\/p>\n

The fiasco has plenty of people calling for major BOE reforms, but most changes require action by the Legislature (which would likely impact all Boards of Election across the state, upsetting lots of patronage app<\/a>lecarts) or even amendments to the state Constitution.<\/p>\n

A faster, city-only fix requires action only by the 10 chairs of the county Democratic and Republican parties: They need only agree to require proven competence of their appointees, who can then clean house among the lower ranks. <\/p>\n

City and state lawmakers also ought to be more cautious about blithely rewriting election rules, since the BOE pretty routinely runs into some<\/em> disaster whenever it\u2019s required to handle anything new.<\/p>\n

But beware calls to make it a \u201cnonpartisan\u201d agency: With Democrats so dominant in the city and statewide these days, that could easily fuel even more public distrust than the regular errors under the current setup.<\/p>\n

For now, the best move is simply to insist the political bosses put a premium on competence for the future and cross your fingers that the board ruthlessly checks its own work before releasing the final certified tallies later this month.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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