A Top New York City Official Just Ordered an Audit of Elections Board

[Bubzer]

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Source: U.S. Uncut

New York City comptroller Scott Stringer has ordered a full audit of the city’s Board of Elections after widespread complaints over the voting process.

As the city comptroller, Stringer has the authority to conduct performance audits of all state agencies, including the Board of Elections. Stringer’s order of a full audit comes after the news that 126,000 voters in Brooklyn were quietly purged from county voter rolls over the last five months, and in response to the news of polling places opening two hours late and voting machines not working. Stringer issued a public statement Tuesday afternoon, describing the Board of Elections as “disorganized, chaotic and inefficient.”

“There is nothing more sacred in our nation than the right to vote, yet election after election, reports come in of people who were inexplicably purged from the polls, told to vote at the wrong location or unable to get in to their polling site. The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient. With four elections in New York City in 2016 alone, we don’t have a moment to spare.”

In an official letter to Board of Elections executive director Michael Ryan, Stringer asked Ryan for the agency’s response in how it conducts poll site operations, communications with voters, training of poll workers, and complaints of voter disenfranchisement.

“All New Yorkers deserve an electoral system that is free, fair and efficient — not one riddled with chaos and confusion,” Stringer wrote.

Read more: http://usuncut.com/politics/new-york-city-comptroller-orders-audit/

[Bubzer]

1. All Dems should support this action, as it pushes for fair elections...

A major democratic party plank.

[840high]

2. good

[floriduck]

3. Sad and hilarious at the same time. What goes around, comes around. nm

[FBaggins]

4. He's a Clinton supporter

Perhaps this is a sign that they aren't happy with the exit polling.

[merrily]

11. Or it's kabuki.

After a thorough investigation, nothing intentional will be found, just lemony snickets.

[Dont call me Shirley]

15. Kabuki.

[anigbrowl]

24. O god give it a rest

The paranoia on DU is so bad I swear it's like talking to meth heads around here sometimes.

[greiner3]

25. Mirrors don't lie

[zeemike]

29. Dirty tricks don't exist.

Because you are paranoid...what a perfect foil that is.

[Lodestar]

36. +1000 !!!

Exactly. Corruption is usually trickle down from the top.

[PSPS]

5. Yes, let's lock the barn after the horse has been stolen.

[fasttense]

37. Exactly,

This crap is going to go on during the general election too. Votes don't really matter anymore.

[Betty Karlson]

44. The USA need a third party. The Democratic one is seemingly beyond redemption. eom

[LiberalLovinLug]

46. +1000

Just like Arizona. Use the holes that exist to win, then work to try and close them behind you.

[matt819]

6. Too little too late. Nt

[jeff47]

7. And around 2018, "irregularities" will be blamed on someone who retires in 2017. (nt)

[merrily]

10. I posted Reply 9 before I read your Reply 7. Different posts, same result.

[haikugal]

51. Yep, pretty much. We get a lot of Kabuki in this country...in the mean time will PA be played the

same way? Hmmmm....

[jillan]

8. Good I am sick of this shit!

[merrily]

9. Governor is Cuomo is a Hillary surrogate AND the guy who will not be investigated.

[monmouth4]

12. Civil Service incompetency? It sounded like many workers had no clue as to what was going on..n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

16. Suddenly civil servants are incompetent? Incompetence excuse is a great cover for fraud!

[Ford_Prefect]

13. How will they now know who was purged and what their registration was?

If people were purged from the rolls does that mean no previous records identify who was purged? Other than personal records like registration cards, precinct records or party held copies of the rolls, how will they determine the previous registration?

Who supplied the lists or the software or the service to perform the purge? Who signed the authorization? Where are the memos and emails on this decision? Who determined which voters were to be removed? When and how was that certified? Was anyone notified that their registration had been challenged or removed? Was there a change in the registration information for those purged prior to the purge taking place? Does the recorded registration of those purged match the registration cards or other information that listed them as voters , such as previous precinct data lists, and etc (listed above)?

Who has access privileges to the voter data? Who services the data networks,sources and servers for those records?

[questionseverything]

17. we know this "audit" is for show nothing else

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511777881

[Uncle Joe]

19. It makes no difference to Bernie supporters, we don't approve of voter suppression.

[AllyCat]

21. Hear hear!

[Bangbangdem]

32. Bernie Bots?

Hmmm. Never came up with a name for Secretary Clinton's supporters. You wouldn't mean an insult by that, would you?

[AllyCat]

40. I didn't say it. Clinton's folks can call us all names they want

[Bangbangdem]

41. Aaaaack!

Sorry, Allycat.

[Uncle Joe]

18. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Bubzer.

[zentrum]

22. That 63,000 figure

…..that's been reported as names suddenly dropped from Democratic voting rolls? Well, NPR's election show (the NYC version) just now reported that that figure is 120,000.

120,000 New York Democrats have been "lost" on the rolls since last November.

[billhicks76]

23. To All The Ignorant Centrists...Republicans Do Not Control NYC

They dont even control the state...you cant blame this on Republicans...your candidate is a lying cheater and karma always wins in the end.

[DJ13]

35. Thank you!

[bkkyosemite]

26. They'll string it out and it will be forgotten

[red dog 1]

27. K&R...Thanks for posting

[retrowire]

28. All this corruption

and yet the Hillary Supporters can't stop their celebrating to think, hey, maybe people's voices aren't being heard?

FUCK THAT WOOOOOOO

[zeemike]

33. You assume that they care .

And I think that many of them don't. A win is a win and that is all they care about.
And even if fraud is proven to them they will ignore it.
The end justified the means.

[valerief]

30. Someone will get a sternly worded letter and no results will change.

That's how democracy is done in our oligarchy.

[Duval]

34. I know, valerief.

But it's such a disappointment when things like this happen. The mess sounds like Republicans, not Democrats. However, what do I know that I can be allowed to post!

[fasttense]

38. But the oligarchs are real happy about how it all looks

Hillary is their pick.

[valerief]

48. Yep, you have to be a toddler to not see that. nt

[Kalidurga]

31. Well this election cycle I am learning a lot more about our system.

It's hundreds times worse than I thought it was. Gebus, it should be a lot easier to vote than it is. I don't think we should even have to chose party affiliation or at least we should be able to change it much easier and much closer to any election than it's possible now. And no I am not worried about RepubliCONS messing things up in order to do so they would be opening the door to oh say Independents going in and choosing who they nominate.

[FourScore]

39. Kabuki theater. Just like in AZ. n/t

[Cassiopeia]

42. The DNC would appreciate it if you would just look away for now.

At the end of July this will be an important issue, but for now it's of no relevance.

Please stay tuned for announcements on the proper timing of outrage over voting rights violations.

[tomm2thumbs]

43. bridges get shut down in Jersey, things 'go wrong' during elections in New York

Literally trillions and trillions of dollars are on the line, and somehow there is even a question that 'certain organizations' don't step in to make things go a certain way? seriously?

[LiveLong101]

45. New Third Party

http://progressiveindependentparty.org/

Check it out

[NJCher]

47. Thanks

Looks like a possible route for me.


Cher

[jane123]

49. Well maybe he can explain how this exact disenfranchisment happened to candidate Obama

Anyone remember this?

New York 2008: 80 districts did not record a single vote for Obama, including heavily black districts like Harlem, as well as districts next to others where Obama had very favorable results.

And now in 2016 they target the place where Bernie was born, and places where he had better demographics and favorable results?
NPR has a story up today reporting in Brooklyn that entire city blocks and entire apartment buildings in Brooklyn were purged from the voting rolls for yesterday's election....that's right entire city blocks and entire apartment buildings full of voters in an area where Bernie grew up....what a coincidence, right?

Yet all the Hillary supporters: "This was totally fair guys! Nothing bad happened. Over 300,000 NY Democrats were purged, and the exit poll which has a 1 in 236,000 chance of being that wrong were wrong, but you shouldn't challenge our very democratic party! As an aside the mayor, DeBlasio, the comptroller who is supposedly investigating, Stringer and the head of the board of elections, Ryan are all Hillary supporters.....

am sure that is just a coincidence, right? happened to Obama.....happened to Sanders.....that's just the good old boy democratic party network in action in New York State....at the end of the day all that matters is winning right???????

[avaistheone1]

50. K&R

[Aerows]

52. When President Donald Trump greets us all from the White House

I don't want to hear one goddamned thing about Ralph Nader, sexism or any other line of bullshit.

[Goblinmonger]

53. Locking

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