After two GOP state Board of Elections officials suggested absentee ballots have led to an increase in election interference, State Sen. Myrie requested they provide evidence for his office to review. Otherwise, Myrie said they 'should stick to the facts.'
Polling workers inspect and count absentee ballots on November 10, 2020, in ManhattanThe chair of New York State Senate’s Elections Committee is demanding state Board of Elections officials turn over any evidence of alleged irregularities after two Republican commissioners made a series of comments criticizing new laws related to absentee ballots signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“While these changes are being sold to the public as enhancing voting in New York, the real effect will be a less reliable voting process more suspect in the eyes of the voters,” the commissioners wrote in a statement sent out widely on January 10th. They go on to suggest that the expanded use of absentee ballots has already led to an increase in election interference, citing two ongoing investigations “in various parts of New York," without providing additional details.
“It took me aback,” Myrie said. “I wanted to find out whether or not this was based on actual evidence […] or whether this was the talking points being used by those opponents of democracy across the country, and up until fairly recently, emanating from the White House,” he added, in reference to former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
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