
(photo: Edwin J. Torres/Mayor's Office)
In April, the New York City Board of Elections received a late delivery of 1,077 pieces of mail from the United States Postal Service, including what turned out to be 828 absentee ballots cast in the 2017 municipal elections. Of those, the BOE found 533 valid absentee ballots never counted, effectively disenfranchising hundreds of voters through no fault of their own, all of whom were attempting to vote in Brooklyn.
The postal service’s failure was “egregious,” BOE Executive Director Michael Ryan said at a public
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