open the holy church of nassau otb snd kill ny p,l sec 109 and get al d'amato no show man off the nassau otb payroll.
State attorney general says she will monitor Nassau early voting site workers
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James during a press conference at her Manhattan office on May 2. Photo Credit: Charles Eckert
State Attorney General Letitia James has alerted Nassau County Board of Elections officials that she will monitor poll watchers at early-voting sites in Nassau over the weekend, according to a Wednesday letter from her office.
The note addressed to Democratic Commissioner James P. Scheuerman and Republican Commissioner Louis G. Savinetti says that James is concerned about reports of poll watchers “improperly challenging voter signatures; standing in the vicinity of privacy booths; standing in unauthorized areas; videotaping and/or photographing voters within the polling place” and other improper behavior.
“The actions of poll watchers as described in these reports, if accurate, could constitute voter intimidation and could ultimately chill the vote in Nassau County,” said the two-page letter, which cites state statutes guaranteeing privacy for voters and prohibiting voter intimidation.
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