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stopbush

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10. Who indeed. It's no mystery:
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 03:11 PM
Apr 2016
It certainly looks suspicious that more than 125,000 Democrats were dropped from Brooklyn's voter rolls between last November and Tuesday's primary. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said that the Board of Elections confirmed the voters were removed and that his office would conduct an audit to see if anything improper was done.

But Michael Ryan, executive director of the elections board, denied anyone was disenfranchised. While more than 100,000 voters were taken off the rolls, he told the New York Times, 63,000 were added and the decline did not "shock his conscience." He told WNYC that "people die every day and they come off the list," and New Yorkers move a lot — another reason they might be taken off the rolls.

Indeed, there might very well be a good — and legitimate — explanation for why all those names were removed.



http://www.npr.org/2016/04/20/474990269/why-voters-are-removed-from-the-rolls-explained?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160420

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