Sullivan County, NY – Chasidic Plaintiffs Win Yiddish Ballots, Federal Monitor And Compensation In Bloomingburg Lawsuit Settlement

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    Rt 17 West shows the exit sign to Bloomingburg NY. on Nov. 24, 2014 (Shimon Gifter/VINnews.com)Sullivan County, NY – The good news keeps on coming for Bloomingburg’s Jewish community, with Chasidic plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit agreeing to a settlement with Sullivan County that would provide greater protection against religious discrimination and the appointment of a federal monitor to ensure that residents’ constitutional right to vote not be denied or unfairly challenged as it has in the past.

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    As previously reported on VIN News, over two dozen Chasidic residents of Bloomingburg sued the Sullivan County Board of Elections and two of its commissioners, Ann Prusinski and the late Rodney Gaebel in federal court, saying that the pair violated New York State election laws when they attempted to prevent many of the village’s Chasidic voters from casting their ballots.

    Prusinski was also found to have collaborated closely with the Rural Community Coalition, which tried to prevent Chasidic Jews from settling in Bloomingburg, and to have encouraged members of the RCC to challenge Chasidic resident Aaron Rabiner’s petition in his successful bid for the position of village trustee last March.

    A settlement reached today by all parties involved calls for federal supervision of the Sullivan County Board of Elections, with a monitor appointed within the next three weeks to supervise the voter registration process in Bloomingburg over a five year period and to mediate any future voter registration challenges that may arise.

    The settlement also prohibits Sullivan County from engaging in or promoting any form of religious discrimination or depriving any legally registered voters of their right to vote. Sullivan County will be required to provide Yiddish language election materials at all Bloomingburg polling places as of April, 2016, including Yiddish signs informing voters of their right to vote in accordance with state law and outlining procedures to follow should their right to vote be challenged.

    In addition, Sullivan County agreed to a $25,000 payment to the plaintiffs as compensation for having had to bring the lawsuit as well as $550,000 in legal fees.

    “We are very pleased with the settlements,” Michael Fragin of Bloomingburg’s Jewish Community Council told VIN News. “It is unfortunate that voters had to resort to court in order to be eligible to vote and this will settle any issues going forward. We believe that justice has been served.”


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    kenyaninwhitehouse
    kenyaninwhitehouse
    8 years ago

    what a hillul Has-em that people who’s parents were born in America need Yiddish ballots.

    sane
    sane
    8 years ago

    This is not the way a Jew is supposed to behave in Golus. The only winner is the lawyer with the ridiculous legal fee.

    8 years ago

    I own a job placement company and many Brooklyn yeshivah graduates insist we give them the grammar tests in Yiddish because they are not taught English! I explain over and over that it’s necessary to speak and read English, but they become incensed. I understand why they want ballots in Yiddish, because hardly any can read English. What a shanda for our youth!

    8 years ago

    Jews who are fourth or fifth generation Anericans still don’t speak or read proper English? How absolutely disgusting. They should be ashamed. To embrace being illiterate? This isn’t Yiddishkeit. Cults do this

    BinsuJiro
    BinsuJiro
    8 years ago

    The key statement in the article is “legally registered voters.”

    Having monitored the voting at the Bloomingburg poling place several times, I clearly witnessed a significant number of Chasidic voters arriving from other communities, being instructed on who or what to vote for and being told what to put on their documents about where they live in the Village.

    The license plates were from other locations, and there were current parking permits on cars from other communities.

    Michael Fragin of Bloomingburg’s Jewish Community Council is a known operative for the Chasidic activists who routinely seek to thrive on the labor and tax revenue generated by those outside of the Chasidic Community.

    The court settlement is more an indication of the financial and political power of the Chasidic Block Vote to corrupt everything in New York State from the Office of Governor Cuomo to the judicial chambers of every courthouse.

    The Chasidic of New York State thrive on threats, intimidation, bribery false claims of anti-semitism generated by their own actions against their targeted communities and arrogance.

    They are a theocratic organized crime family.