{"id":78428,"date":"2020-09-30T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T02:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomo-trying-to-stop-nyc-board-of-elections-from-resending-botched-ballots\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T05:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T02:16:28","slug":"cuomo-trying-to-stop-nyc-board-of-elections-from-resending-botched-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomo-trying-to-stop-nyc-board-of-elections-from-resending-botched-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo trying to stop NYC Board of Elections from resending botched ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo trying to stop NYC Board of Elections from resending botched ballots<\/strong>”
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\n Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s top staff has launched a last-minute effort trying to stop New York City\u2019s embattled Board of Elections from resending ballots to nearly 100,000 Brooklynites who received the wrong return envelope, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The developments come just hours after BOE commissioners ordered the agency vendor that botched the initial absentee ballot mailings to resend them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governor wants to take a different app<\/a>roach,\u201d said Doug Kellner, the co-chairman of the state Board of Elections, who declined to elaborate further. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to talk to the governor\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another top state official confirmed that Cuomo\u2019s office is pressuring the city BOE to abandon the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cLate in the day, the governor\u2019s top staff \u2014 including his top counsel \u2014 got on the phone with the Board and was pushing them not to remail ballots,\u201d the person told The Post, adding that Cuomo\u2019s staff was interested in a plan to just remail the envelopes, an idea the official labeled \u201ctwisted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result would be massive disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of Brooklynites,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a horrible mistake,\u201d the person added. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a fiasco even worse than it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie blasted the idea as word began to leak out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hearing reports that @NYGovCuomo<\/span><\/a> wants to prevent the @BOENYC<\/span><\/a> from rectifying the issue by stopping them from sending corrected ballots,\u201d he wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cThis is straight-up disenfranchisement and an affront to our democracy. The vendor screwed up and is trying to fix it. Let them!\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s office claimed that the city Board of Elections was independent of their meddling, but then said that resending the ballots would be an overcorrection. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t control the board of elections but our recommendation was that sending corrected envelopes will ensure that any person that got an erroneous envelope can still vote,\u201d said senior Cuomo adviser Richard Azzopardi. \u201cThere is nothing wrong with the actual ballots and sending 100,000 duplicate ballots seems to be an overcorrection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One source suggested to The Post that Cuomo was worried about the optics of the Board of Elections resending the ballots because it could potentially allow President Trump to claim New Yorkers were voting twice.<\/p>\n

The slight risk of double voting was also brought up internally by the BOE, according to Secretary Fred Umane. But Umane said the BOE forged ahead with the decision to send new ballots with envelopes because the method outweighs what he called the small possibility of voter fraud.<\/p>\n

Absentee ballot return envelopes are coded with the same voter ID that is kept in the poll books, making it nearly impossible for anyone to vote twice just because they got a second ballot, sources said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n