Attorney General Opens Inquiry Into New York Primary

Attorney General Opens Inquiry Into New York Primary

The New York Accompaniment advocate general, Eric T. Schneiderman, appear on Wednesday that his appointment was aperture an analysis into abeyant voting irregularities during the presidential primary on Tuesday, if New York City’s Board of Elections begin itself besieged by complaints that it had alone bags of Democratic voters from the rolls in Brooklyn, a part of added issues.

Mr. Schneiderman’s appointment said it had accustomed added than 1,000 complaints from voters beyond the state, dwarfing the almost 150 letters it accustomed for the 2012 accepted election. Many humans said they had approved to vote, alone to be told that they were not registered — the a lot of accepted complaint, according to Mr. Schneiderman’s office. A part of complaints from New York City, the better block sprang from Brooklyn, area there were letters that the voter-information books in some polling places were missing assorted pages.

“By a lot of accounts, voters casting their ballots calmly and successfully,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement. “However, I am acutely afflicted by the aggregate and bendability of voting irregularities.”

The board’s much-maligned Primary Day achievement is aswell getting audited by the appointment of Scott M. Stringer, the city-limits comptroller, who on Wednesday appear an online anatomy for voters to abide advice about their experiences.

“We’re not shrinking from the investigations,” said Michael J. Ryan, controlling administrator of the Board of Elections, who promised to abet with both inquiries and “get to the basal of” the allegations that voters were alone from the rolls.

Still, Mr. Ryan said, “unless and until a full-throated analysis reveals otherwise, I’ll angle by the account I fabricated yesterday: that no voters were disenfranchised.”

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