WAS THE DEMOCRAT CAUCUS RIGGED?

There were instances at the Democrat caucus last night that have caused many to question if it was rigged. I have been contacted by several people today who were there. I was also there and took copious notes, made audio recordings and took pictures and videos of what went on. Today I have been looking into all of this and have concluded that the possibility existed for the caucus to have been rigged. Mind you, I am not saying that it was rigged it's just that there were opportunities for it to have happened. Much of the contention revolves around the first three votes for the town board. All were ties which were finally decided by just one vote! There was a lot of confusion during this process. There were many questions raised about how it was handled.

1. It was announced that the votes would be counted on the table so everyone could see. The votes were actually counted on the judges bench with their backs to the audience and no one could see. The claim was made that this was OK because they counted the votes twice.

2. There were two times when votes were "found" after the counting finished.

a. After the votes were counted Anne Henderson discovered that she had not voted and quickly filled out a slip and handed it to the counters.

b. After the votes were counted one of the tellers "found" a "missing" vote that she said was in her left hand by mistake along with some blank votes. When she was showing the audience how this happened I saw the vote slip and it was for Morse and was written with feminine handwriting. I went over to Anne (who I was sitting very near) and told her I thought she should run this one again as it did not look good. Obviously she did not take my advise.

This leaves open the possibility that someone could have slipped in a vote for a candidate and replaced it with another one. I'm not saying it did happen nor am I questioning the honesty or integrity of any of those involved. But, and this is a big BUT. But because of the way it was handled and because they were won by just a one vote margin it will be an open question IF it happened. It will be up to the democrats to decide if this should be investigated or what if anything should be done about it.

I have some more information about last night that I am sifting through and I may update this report at a later time. However, I would suggest that whoever is going to run the Republican caucus on Monday take heed and make sure that we don't have a repeat of last night.

NOTE TO DEMOCRATS - HERE IS THE ELECTION LAW LINK INFORMATION
New York Code Search - MegaLaw.com

17-102 is the law in question New York Code Search - MegaLaw.com 17-102

This is the Google page search results. The third item down is a pdf (12+ megabytes) of the election law Google Search: 17-102 election law ny