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New York, NY - 3,500 Voter Registrations Vanished Before Election Day |
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"They were sitting in a hallway," said one source. "No one noticed."
As a result, the names of the new voters were missing from the official log books, and those who went to vote on Nov. 4 couldn't use the regular election machines and were told they'd have to fill out paper ballots.
The embarrassing oversight was discovered two days later, on Nov. 6.
Election officials rushed to enter the missing names into the records before any results were certified.
"Everyone who filled out the form correctly, their votes would, in fact, be valid," said Valerie Vasquez, spokeswoman for the city's Board of Elections. "All those votes will be counted."
The board was swamped by 200,000 new registrations in the week before the Oct. 10 deadline.
Officials said the state Board of Elections forwarded 3,552 to the city on Sept. 10. For reasons no one can explain right now, they sat unopened for nearly two months.
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Dec 02, 2008 at 11:51 AM Anonymous Says:
Were these the UJCare registrations?
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Dec 02, 2008 at 12:05 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Were these the UJCare registrations? ”
Were these the UJO registrations?
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Dec 02, 2008 at 01:05 PM Anonymous Says:
I asked about UJCARE bec. remember I reading in the Blatt that because the registrations were submitted in Manhattan (City Hall, I believe) for Brooklyn residents, they were sent to the State to be forwarded to the Brooklyn board of elections, and therefore delayed. However, this article doesn't specify which in borough's Board of Elections the registrations were found, so it might be something else entirely.
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Dec 02, 2008 at 06:57 PM Perele Says:
I'm not saying conspiracy or anything, but my name was missing from the voter book. I had to use a paper ballot, want to bet it hasn't even been counted yet? I have since confirmed my registration, we'll see what happens next time....
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Dec 03, 2008 at 01:37 AM Anonymous Says:
Does anybody remember the clintons "recovering" the billing records after going missing for 3 years ?