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Why the Board of Elections remains a regular disaster
If you wonder why the city Board of Elections never seems to stop screwing up, realize that the foxes are guarding the henhouse: The very politicians who are supposed to...
All in the family: Lawmaker who oversees Elex Board has 4 members on payroll
The state lawmaker tasked with oversight of the scandal-plagued city Board of Elections has at least four family members on the patronage-laden agency's payroll, The Post has learned.
It's official: Adams certified as victor in NYC Democratic mayoral primary
The city Board of Elections on Tuesday certified Eric Adams the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor in a squeaker over Kathryn Garcia.
SI activist files counter charges over bust for going maskless at ballot review
Staten Island activist John Tabacco filed a police report against two borough elections officials he said had him forcibly removed from a ballot-counting session for refusing to wear a mask.
Summer's a bummer for socialists in denial: Goodwin
Delusional socialists Sen. Bernie Sanders and AOC are pointing at the wrong reasons why Cubans are protesting their communist regime, The Post’s Michael Goodwin writes.
Eric Adams says result-botching NYC elections board did 'great job'
Eric Adams downplayed the Board of Elections' error of releasing faulty election results -- claiming that the agency "did a great job."
NYC elections officials seek state, federal probes into suspected ballot-harvesting
NYC BOE members want a criminal investigation in Marko Kepi, a US Marine seeking the Republican nomination in the race for the 50th District council seat.
Absentee ballot results in NYC's mayoral primary to be released Tuesday
The Board of Elections is set to reveal the tallies of nearly 126,000 absentee ballots in the Big Apple's hotly competitive Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday.
NYC mayoral race shows: It's well-off whites — not minorities — who back far-left policies
New York City’s notoriously incompetent election officials have not finished tabulating the votes in the June 22 Democratic primary, with its novel ranked-choice-voting system.
Eric Adams regains lead in major political betting market
PredicIt, a site where users bet on political results and company performance, puts Eric Adams at a 55 percent chance to win the NYC mayoral election.
Cha-Ching! Embattled elections workers cashed in with fat overtime payments
An ex-con busted for robbery as a teen is among a group of employees of New York City's embattled Board of Elections who cashed in with massive overtime payouts last...
Too close to call? Mayoral candidates prep for 'unprecedented' manual recount
Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley are demanding a manual recount of the June 22 primary election if the final vote count has narrow enough margins.
NAACP head Dukes slams ranked choice voting, urges overhaul of Elections board
The head of the NAACP in New York slammed the new ranked-choice voting system as "voter suppression" while calling for an overhaul of the bumbling New York City Board of...
Letters to the Editor — July 1, 2021
The Issue: The Board of Election’s admission that it miscounted votes in the Democratic mayoral primary. What a surprise that the Board of Elections in New York City has botched...
Fix the NYC Board of Elections or face endless mayhem
By inadvertently including 135,000 test ballots in Tuesday's preliminary report on results of the June 22 Democratic primary, the BOE all but ensured it won't make that same mistake in...
Adams again tops Garcia in mayoral re-tally that still doesn't count
The city's Board of Elections said that Eric Adams maintained his lead in the city's Democratic mayoral primary -- one day after officials threw the race into chaos with a...
NYC election officials met in secret to discuss massive screw-up in vote count
City election officials held an apparently illegal, secret meeting Wednesday to discuss the botched vote count that threw the Democratic mayoral primary into chaos, The Post has learned.
Eric Adams sues to ensure a 'fair election process' after botched vote count
The Board of Elections botched the June 22 primary outcome by accidentally including test results in the vote count, leading to 135,000 extra ballots.
Calls grow for NYC elections board overhaul after epic fail on mayoral tally
Anger mounted against the Board of Elections on Wednesday after the agency botched the initial tallies under the Big Apple's new ranked-choice voting system.
BOE left in hands of 'unqualified' No. 2 before primary fiasco: source
Board of Elections executive director Mike Ryan's deputy, Dawn Sandow, is a Bronx Republican political appointee, who a fellow GOP official described as unqualified to run the board.