BY KEVIN DUGGAN
After widespread reports
of city contractors mailing out
faulty absentee ballot envelopes
to voters around Brooklyn,
Board of Elections honchos
announced Tuesday they will
resend corrected ballots to borough
voters.
“We will direct the vendor
to reprint and re-mail all of the
absentee ballot packages to all
of the voters that were affected,”
said Board of Elections executive
director Michael Ryan during
the board’s weekly meeting
Sept. 29.
Up to 100,000 voters in
Brooklyn may have received
absentee ballots with return envelopes
that featured strangers’
names and incorrect addresses,
according to an estimate by the
borough’s Democratic Party
Boss Rodneyse Bichotte.
Amid the confusion, prospective
voters took to social
media to express their frustration
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— including one Brooklynite
named Morgan, who received
a mail-back envelope
ostensibly meant for someone
named Sean.
“Like seemingly everyone
else in Brooklyn, I got the
wrong envelope to go with my
absentee ballot. This should
have gone to someone named
Sean,” the frustrated woman
tweeted.
The BOE head cast full
blame for the bad ballots on a
contracted upstate printer —
Phoenix Graphics — saying
the snafu happened during one
print run and was isolated to
the one borough, which is home
to 2.6 million residents.
“Our understanding of this
problem up to this point is that
it is isolated in one borough —
that would be the borough of
Brooklyn — and one print run,
and that would be the data that
we transmitted to them in the
fi rst day of processing,” the
elections honcho said.
Phoenix Graphics will
shoulder the cost of reprinting
and re-mailing ballots with a
note to voters telling them why
they’re getting a second ballot.
BOE bigwigs will also launch a
communications blitz to inform
their staff and voters about the
reissue, according to Ryan, who
said establishing confi dence in
the voting process was of paramount
concern.
“It is essential that confi -
dence be established in this
process and that we make certain
that all of the voters who
potentially have a problem,
have a full and fair opportunity
to remedy that problem,”
he said.
Bichotte, the Brooklyn
party boss, echoed Ryan, saying
the outside contractor was
squarely to blame for the mishap,
and demanded that the
agency send BOE staff to oversee
print productions — while
Up to 100,000 voters in Brooklyn may have received incorrect absentee
ballots, the Board of Elections said Tuesday. Ginger Adams
also notifying affected voters if
their ballots won’t be counted.
“Brooklyn voters wishing
to safely participate in our
democratic process are once
again being disenfranchised
by systemic errors caused by
third party participants in the
electoral process,” she said in
a statement on Tuesday. “I am
outraged that Brooklynites are
receiving erroneous ballots
impeding their ability to effectively
vote by mail.”
The politico said the agency
needed to restore confi dence in
the voting process, especially
as Democratic incumbents face
Republican challengers in the
borough’s few swing districts
along its southern belt come
Nov. 3 — such as Congressman
Max Rose and state Sen. Andrew
Gounardes.
“This problem is troubling,
and could impact the outcome
of the elections in south Brooklyn,
where there are marginal
races,” Bichotte said. “I will
work in tandem with city and
state agencies to ensure that
this risk is minimized.”
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