Greg Palast: New York voting fiasco just the warm-up for the November game

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59. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Investigating Primary Voting Irregularities

About 120,000 registered Democrats were dropped from voter rolls in Brooklyn.
04/20/2016 05:36 pm ET

About 120,000 Democrats suspiciously disappeared from voter rolls in Brooklyn,according to NPR. An analysis of voter data by WNYC found that none of New York City’s other boroughs saw such a significant decline in the number of Democrats and just seven of the state’s 62 counties saw a decrease. The head of the New York City Board of Elections said so many voters were dropped in a small time frame because retirements and illness of staff members at the agency caused it to fall behind in maintaining its voter rolls, and it purged a high number of voters as it caught up with the backlog.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who lost the New York Democratic primary to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called the irregularities “absurd” and a Sanders campaign spokesman described them as “a disgrace” on Wednesday.

“I am deeply troubled by the volume and consistency of voting irregularities, both in public reports and direct complaints to my office’s voter hotline, which received more than one thousand complaints in the course of the day yesterday,” Schneiderman said in a statement. “That’s why today, we have opened an investigation into alleged improprieties in yesterday’s voting by the New York City Board of Elections. If necessary, we will initiate inquiries in additional areas of the State where voting irregularities appeared unusually high.”