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.
Not exact matches
«State agents uncovered
hundreds of fraudulent examples: people who didn't live in the city voting in the election; phony signatures on
absentee ballots; and campaign vote brokers acting as witnesses for most
of these ballots.
In addition to the 757 valid
absentee ballots, there are
hundreds more invalid
absentee ballots, some
of which are likely to be successfully contested by the two campaigns.
Hundreds of thousands
of potential voters remain uncertain about what, if any, forms
of identification they will be required to include on their
absentee ballots or to present at their polling stations.
A little over a
hundred of the contested
absentee ballots were from Cape Vincent, where Byrne lives.
Although
hundreds of votes ahead
of opponent Cecilia Tkaczyk,
absentee ballots put her in the seat, by a mere 18 votes.
Mannix, who has represented many
hundreds of clients in Family Court, is now out
of the race as he had only sought the G.O.P. nomination — unless the
absentee ballots overturn the election - night results.
Although
hundreds of thousands
of absentee ballots remained to be counted, supporters
of the measure deemed their campaign a triumph for the state's children.