Sentences with phrase «dozens of absentee»

In its report, a grand jury suggested the state adopt a law «[n] ot to allow for a single political operative to acquire literally dozens of absentee ballots, ostensibly take them to the voter, and then return them to the Board of Elections.»

The investigation centers on allegations that dozens of absentee ballots were forged or contained false information attributed to voters when the documents were submitted to the Rensselaer County Board of Elections during last September's Working Families Party primary elections in Troy.

During a brief hearing on the search warrant application Smith told Herrick that he has established probable cause to support his request and uncovered enough evidence to show that dozens of absentee ballots for the Working Families Party were forged and attributed to voters who had no role in filling them out.

Not exact matches

Syracuse Republicans are just a few dozen votes shy of winning back a city office as a race for Common Council will come down to absentee ballots, but the rest of city hall remained solidly Democratic after Tuesday's election.

The victims include dozens of residents of city housing projects, all registered to vote on the Working Families Party line, who had absentee ballots filed in their name that included forged information, including signatures and the excuses for why they could not vote in person.

After the votes were counted last night, Democrat Scott Murphy held an advantage of roughly five dozen votes over Tedisco, with thousands of absentee ballots had yet to be counted.

Dozens of election volunteers were hard at work at the board's Queens offices in Kew Gardens over the last week, examining the hundreds of absentee and paper ballots cast in the Sept. 15 Democratic primary for Council District 28.