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New York City Board of Elections

New York City Board of Elections

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Aug 31, 2026

Jimmy VielkindCORRESPONDENT
8:07
Good.
Jimmy VielkindCORRESPONDENT
8:07
J.C. Polanco is a professor at the University of Mount St. Vincent in the Bronx and a former president of the New York City Board of Elections.
Jimmy VielkindCORRESPONDENT
8:15
He says there will likely be court battles ahead, but this is already causing confusion.
J.C. PolancoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
8:20
Voters should act as if nothing happened and they should continue voting as such.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:04
In addition, there's lots of patronage.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:05
I mean, the chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party gets to pick who's on the board of elections from her county for a Dem.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:13
And as part of that, you get lots of jobs related to that at the board of elections to put in whomever you want or your friends want.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:22
And we've done lots of reporting on that.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:24
And that's just basically the system that it is.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:26
And that's not just Brooklyn.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:27
That's all counties.
Courtney GrossHOST
13:29
Like, that's how it works at the Board of Elections.
speaker_4HOST
4:13
of adult care facilities and hospitals.
Craig EatonGUEST
4:15
Now it's expanded to anybody wants an absentee ballot, they just call the Board of Elections.
Craig EatonGUEST
4:19
And you can even have an absentee ballot mailed to you at an address that's different from your address that's on record with the Board of Elections.
John FundGUEST
4:28
And in some states, they can even deliver the ballot to you overseas.
Craig EatonGUEST
4:32
And then the ballots, they'll count the ballots if they come in up to 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock on Election Day.
John CatsimatidisHOST
7:00
That is really frightening.
John CatsimatidisHOST
7:02
And when you talk, I mean, that's an enormous amount of people, right, John? And why would you not want to figure it out for integrity purposes? Well,
John FundGUEST
7:11
remember that de Blasio's Democratic representative on the New York Board of Elections a few years ago was caught being videotaped at a party admitting there was massive voter fraud.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:00
And I encourage New Yorkers to ignore all the crap that's coming out of Washington questioning the validity of our elections.
Samuel KingCORRESPONDENT
2:09
Former New York City Board of Elections President J.C. Polanco says the Supreme Court did not rule on the legality of Trump's order, so there will likely be more court battles ahead.
Samuel KingCORRESPONDENT
2:19
But it's already causing confusion.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:21
I fear of what

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