“The special election for a Bronx Assembly seat — where just 72 votes separate the two top finishers — was mired with fraud that included the winning candidate’s mom working at a poll site where at least one machine wouldn’t even allow people to vote for the challengers, residents said. “Pichardo, the former director of community affairs for state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, admitted Thursday that his mother was a poll worker — a violation of New York State law — but insisted everything was on the up and up.”
“As a result, Hector Ramirez, who lost narrowly to Victor Pichardo in Tuesday’s primary, is urging the governor’s Office and federal authorities to look into why there were no levers next to his name — and several other vanquished candidates — on several other machines at other locations when voters went to the polls…
New York Daily News reports.