NYC Board of Elections takes down
Kevin McCaffrey faces challenge in union election& loretta preska holds up local 707 election as putinesque, slate voting, & failure to verify eligibility of nassau otb employees whose dues are deductedfrom their paychecks
The Republican Suffolk County legislator is also president of Teamsters Local 707, which his opponent said is not getting his full attention.
Suffolk Legis. Kevin McCaffrey, left, also Teamsters Local 707 president, is seen with Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Peter King and union members on Jan. 2 in Hempstead. Photo Credit: Howard Schnapp
The Republican Suffolk County legislator is also president of Teamsters Local 707, which his opponent said is not getting his full attention.
Suffolk Legis. Kevin McCaffrey, left, also Teamsters Local 707 president, is seen with Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Peter King and union members on Jan. 2 in Hempstead. Photo Credit: Howard Schnapp
video featuring Cuomo vote
The city Board of Elections has taken down a video that
showed voters how to cast a ballot — by marking a spot for Gov. Andrew Cuomo — after The Post posted a story about the spot on Monday.
showed voters how to cast a ballot — by marking a spot for Gov. Andrew Cuomo — after The Post posted a story about the spot on Monday.
The 55-second video featured images of the two-page ballot, with a darkened oval mark over Cuomo’s name.
But a link to the site of the video has been deleted with the message, “Video unavailable. This video has been removed by the user.”
The board acted after GOP gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro and other Republican officials said it smacked of favoritism.
“I definitely have a problem with it. I find it hard to believe that a bipartisan agency would let a tape out that shows a sample ballot filled in with votes for one party’s candidate or another,” said Michael Rendino, the Bronx Republican Party chairman and a former elections board commissioner.
One state senator even called for the state Board of Elections to intervene.
“We will not let Mayor de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo or anyone steal this election,” said state Senate
Elections Committee Chairman Fred Akshar (R-Binghamton).
Elections Committee Chairman Fred Akshar (R-Binghamton).
“This appears to be a deliberate effort by someone or a group of individuals at the NYC BOE to influence the election to help Andrew Cuomo and Democrats to take over the state.”
Frederick Umane, the Republican elections board commissioner from Manhattan, said the elections agency goofed by using the names of real candidates
“This was done to make it easier to show voters how to separate the ballot and vote. It should not have been a real ballot,” Umane said.
“They should have had the names Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to avoid any controversy.”
Other than showing a vote for Cuomo, the ballot in the instructional video — posted online Saturday
— also carried marks for multiple candidates in several races.
— also carried marks for multiple candidates in several races.
If a voter marked several candidates in a single race, that ballot would be tossed out.
The BOE declined comment.
Molinaro first became aware of the problem when a whistleblower noticed the politically problematic snafus and alerted his campaign via his “Cuomo Leaks” website for anti-corruption tipsters.
when you have the hiffa fix you do nit need foreigners
Kevin McCaffrey, Suffolk legislator, wins back Teamsters local presidency in revote
Suffolk County Legislator Kevin McCaffrey speaks beside Legislator Robert Trotta during a press conference at the William Rogers Legislature Building in Hauppauge Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Photo Credit: Barry Sloan
Kevin McCaffrey won back the presidency of his Teamsters union local, regaining the $106,000 union post that he had lost in November following cuts to members’ pensions.
McCaffrey, minority leader of the Suffolk County Legislature, retook the position as head of Teamsters Local 707 in Nassau County by a vote of 525-455, according to ballots opened Wednesday. The election was rerun because ambulance company employees originally did not get their ballots.
Local president John Kelder, the president who had beaten McCaffrey by six votes in November, said he would challenge the revote.
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