Zeldin's suspect petitions were assembled at NY Republican headquarters

[Nevilledog]

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Troubled-petitions-were-assembled-at-NY-17372685.php

ALBANY — State Republican Party headquarters in Albany served as a final hub of a dubious petitioning effort that's since sparked controversy and a Democrat-led call for a criminal investigation.

The petitioning centered on statewide Republican candidates seeking to run on an additional, key ballot line in the November election by reviving the moribund state Independence Party. This spring, the GOP attempted a massive petitioning effort, spearheaded in part by the Republican gubernatorial campaign of U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin of Long Island.

A spokeswoman for the state Republican Party, Jessica Proud, confirmed to the Times Union that signed Independence Party petitions were later dropped at their party headquarters on State Street in Albany — and bound in volumes at the party office — before submission to the state Board of Elections on the May 31 deadline.

Of 52,000 photocopied signatures submitted, more than 11,000 were determined by the Board of Elections to be xeroxed copies of other, original signatures within those same records. The copied pages were interspersed in a manner leading some election experts to conclude their inclusion may have been intentional, possibly to inflate the number of signatures to surpass the daunting new threshold of 45,000 valid signatures for upstart state parties to gain ballot access.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. The radicalized Republican party has to cheat -- too few agree with their agenda.