Queens DA Election Foreshadowing Elections to Come

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The Queens DA election is showing what the Corporate Democratic Party Machine will be doing to keep their candidates in the race for the 2020 election.
Progressive lawmakers in New York accused establishment Democrats of “stealing” a Queens district attorney primary election after 2,300 affidavit ballots were invalidated in a race apparently decided by just 20 votes.

Tiffany Cabán, a public defender who identifies as a democratic socialist and was backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other New York progressives, declared victory last month after the election-night vote count showed her leading by about 1,100 votes over Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, who was favored by the local party establishment. On Wednesday, a count of paper ballots that had not been tallied on primary night pushed Katz ahead by 20 votes, triggering an automatic recount.

Cabán’s team acknowledged on primary night that there were still about 3,400 absentee ballots left to be counted, but believed it was highly unlikely that Katz could win enough of the remaining votes to pull ahead. According to the final results, however, Katz won 1,901 of the paper ballots while Cabán won just 751, the New York Times reports.

But progressives are crying foul after the Board of Elections invalidated more than 2,300 affidavit ballots, meaning provisional ballots that are given to voters who show up at the polls but are not listed on the voter rolls. The affidavits are then reviewed by the Board of Elections, which tosses the ballots it considers invalid.

Out of about 2,800 such ballots, elections officials invalidated nearly 80 percent of the votes and only counted 487 of the provisional ballots cast. Ballots may be invalidated if the person is not registered to vote, did not vote at the correct polling place or was not registered as a Democrat under the state closed primary rules. New York’s voter registration system has been called the most undemocratic of any state, requiring voters to register a party affiliation at least six months before they can vote in a primary election, far longer than any other state.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/progr ... ossed-out/

Does the Board of Elections think they are in Georgia or Carolina?

The Democrat Machine will do anything they can to make sure that Biden is the Dems man for president and I’m afraid that will insure that Trump will get re-elected.
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Re: Queens DA Election Foreshadowing Elections to Come

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One party dominance becomes corrupt, they'll do anything to stay in control. Reminds me of the battle within the Republican Party between the establishment Republicans and the Tea Party wing. Purity battles, who represents true Democrats or true Republicans better. We don't have viable third parties so each party's tent becomes bigger and bigger and independents become larger and the parties shrink. Yep, NY sounds like GA and other red states.
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