Sentences with phrase «ballot fraud investigation»

July 29: Targets of ballot fraud investigation identified: Rensselaer County Board of Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough; city Councilmen Michael LoPorto, Gary Galuski, Kevin McGrath, and John Brown; City Council President Clement Campana; City Clerk William McInerney; and political operatives Dan Brown and Anthony DeFiglio, a former Troy Housing Authority clerk.

Campana and the Brown brothers were identified a year ago as being among nine Democrats that were persons of interest in the absentee ballot fraud investigation stemming from the city's 2009 Working Families Party primary,

TROY — William A. McInerney, the Troy city clerk who has been identified as a target in a ballot fraud investigation, is considering an offer to plead guilty to a felony charge and avoid a prison sentence in exchange for his cooperation in the case, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

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That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

If McInerney accepts the prosecutor's offer he would be the first person convicted in an absentee ballot - fraud investigation that has implicated numerous public officials after widespread forgeries were discovered during the September 2009 Working Families Party primary in Troy.

In 2009, an investigation into absentee ballot fraud by Democratic officials and party operatives in the Working Families Party primaries resulted in several guilty pleas and two acquittals