A grand jury empaneled in Staten Island identified numerous instances of ballot fraud in a race for City Council last year — including a ballot submitted on behalf of a dead person and signat…
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of a deceased individual was submitted to the Board [of Elections], naming a CANDIDATE 2 campaign staffer, STAFFER 1, as the authorized collector of his absentee ballot,” the report said. A Staten island grand jury has identified numerous instances of ballot harvesting fraud in a race for City Council last year.The grand jury also reported 200 “mismatched” or suspect signatures on other absentee ballots submitted by staffers or volunteers with the Kepi campaign, and received testimony from “multiple registered voters explaining that the purported signatures on absentee ballot requests bearing their names were not, in fact, their signatures.
The report said the Kepi campaign submitted a batch of more than 1,000 absentee ballots to the elections board. Many lacked voter signatures and hand other defects and were summarily rejected. Voting by mail or absentee expanded dramatically during the coronavirus pandemic as a way to curb the spread of the deadly bug at polling sites. Currently, anyone can cite COVID-19Previously, only voters who were disabled, seriously ill or homebound could request an absentee ballot.
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