Board of Elections will suspend second clerk as Brooklyn primary debacle continues to unravel

[hrmjustin]

JENNIFER FERMINO

A second Brooklyn Board of Elections official is expected to be suspended Thursday over New York’s primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

Betty Ann Canizio-Aqil, a BOE chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote at 3:30 pm by the board’s commissioners, sources told the Daily News.

Canizio-Aqil is the Democratic counterpart to Diane Haslett-Rudiano, the Republican BOE chief clerk.


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/board-elections-suspend-clerk-primary-debacle-article-1.2626423?cid=bitly

[elleng]

1. so a bi-partisan screw up, eh???

[hrmjustin]

2. All actions are supposed to be approved by the 2 BOE members assigned

for each county. And they are always from seperate parties.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Good!

[Android3.14]

4. I sure hope they got their money up front

[hrmjustin]

5. Personally I think this was about the mayors election next year.

[Android3.14]

6. You've ignored the issues, logic, party favoritism and suppression of the vote this whole season.

Of course you would think suppressing the vote in Democratic contests has nothing to do with the primary.

[hrmjustin]

7. Well the problem with thinking it was about the presidential primary is that there was

no evidence it was targeted at one candidate.

If you look the neighborhoods that were more effected you will see they were not targeted only towards one candidate.

You mistake me. I think it was dond on purpose but I think this was about local politics.

[George II]

8. How is this "party favoritism" when a republican and a Democrat were suspended?