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BROOKLYN – Last month the Board of Elections (BOE) sent out nearly 100,000 absentee ballots with return envelopes that had wrong names and addresses in Brooklyn. If the voter filled out this ballot, signed it, and put it in the return envelope, they’d be voting on behalf of someone
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Early Voting. Anna Van Der Heijden/BklynerThe New York City Campaign Finance Board sent voter directories with inaccurate poll site information to 150,000 voters citywide, a spokesperson for the CFB told Bklyner. The inaccurate information was included in the CFB’s annual General Election Voter Guide, which since 2017
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Art work by ulie Peppito (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – Council Members Mark Treyger and Justin Brannan– who are literally district neighbors– each introduced a new bill this week to allow for interpreters in poll sites. The only difference? Brannan’s bill [https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerCONEY ISLAND – Votes for Assembly District 46 have still not been fully counted, which is why about three dozen people rallied with the candidate currently leading by 70 votes, Mathylde Frontus, outside her campaign office to demand answers and accountability by the Board of Elections (BOE) Saturday
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Photo credit: Theresa Thompson [https://www.flickr.com/photos/theresasthompson/with/2999130055/] / Flickr Tuesday, November 8 is New York’s Primary Elections. And besides the obvious choices, there are a number of important local races to know. Polls will be open from 6am – 9pm. Our coverage area has variation depending
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Photo by Park Slope StoopTuesday, September 13 is New York’s Primary Elections. Polls will be open from 6am – 9pm. Our coverage area has variation depending on where you live. To get detailed information based on your exact address, visit Voter’s Edge New York [http://votersedge.nyccfb.info/en/
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Nydia Velázquez, winner of the congressional primary for district 7. Courtesy of Velázquez’s Facebook.As expected. Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez [http://velazquez.house.gov/index.shtml] won the Democratic congressional primary for New York District 7 on Tuesday against banker Yungman Lee, [/politics/yungman-lee-looks-bring-new-face-congressional-district-47/] and lawyer Jeff Kurzon [/politics/unconventional-campaign-congressional-district-7/
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Nydia Veláquez (Courtesy of Nydia Velázquez/Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RepNydiaVelazquez/?fref=ts])Hispanic voters, many of them in South Slope and Sunset Park, were disproportionately removed from the voting rolls prior to the presidential primary in April compared to all other ethnic groups, according to a report by
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Nydia Veláquez (Courtesy of Nydia Veláquez/Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/RepNydiaVelazquez/?fref=ts])Hispanic voters, many of them in Sunset Park, were disproportionately removed from the voting rolls prior to the presidential primary in April compared to all other ethnic groups, according to a report by WNYC [http://www.
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The 120,000 purged voters who disappeared from the rolls ahead of this year’s primary elections been restored to voting rolls, according to the Board of Elections [http://vote.nyc.ny.us/downloads/pdf/documents/boe/minutes/2016/060716meet.pdf] (BOE). The BOE announced
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.The 120,000 purged voters who disappeared from the rolls ahead of this year’s primary elections been restored to voting rolls, according to the Board of Elections [http://vote.nyc.ny.us/downloads/pdf/documents/boe/minutes/2016/060716meet.pdf] (BOE). The BOE announced
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Betty Anna Canizio with former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes (Source: Facebook)Betty Anne Canizio — the Board Of Elections (BOE) official who was suspended in the aftermath of the purge of registered Brooklyn voters [/thousands-of-brooklyn/#.VzDADKODGko] revealed during New York’s presidential primary — has no intention of ending her campaign