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Aug 31, 2026
Today's headlines for August 31
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8:07Jimmy VielkindCORRESPONDENT
Good.
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8:07Jimmy VielkindCORRESPONDENT
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.
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8:15Jimmy VielkindCORRESPONDENT
He says there will likely be court battles ahead, but this is already causing confusion.
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8:20J.C. PolancoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Voters should act as if nothing happened and they should continue voting as such.
Why Brooklyn Democrats are fighting each other for power
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13:04Courtney GrossHOST
In addition, there's lots of patronage.
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13:05Courtney GrossHOST
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.
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13:13Courtney GrossHOST
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.
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13:22Courtney GrossHOST
And we've done lots of reporting on that.
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13:24Courtney GrossHOST
And that's just basically the system that it is.
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13:26Courtney GrossHOST
And that's not just Brooklyn.
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13:27Courtney GrossHOST
That's all counties.
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13:29Courtney GrossHOST
Like, that's how it works at the Board of Elections.
John Fund: Supreme Court Decision on Mail In Ballots is at Least a Temporary Win for Election Integrity
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4:13speaker_4HOST
of adult care facilities and hospitals.
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4:15Craig EatonGUEST
Now it's expanded to anybody wants an absentee ballot, they just call the Board of Elections.
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4:19Craig EatonGUEST
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.
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4:28John FundGUEST
And in some states, they can even deliver the ballot to you overseas.
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4:32Craig EatonGUEST
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.
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7:00John CatsimatidisHOST
That is really frightening.
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7:02John CatsimatidisHOST
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,
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7:11John FundGUEST
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.
Today's headlines for August 26
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2:00speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I encourage New Yorkers to ignore all the crap that's coming out of Washington questioning the validity of our elections.
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2:09Samuel KingCORRESPONDENT
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.
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2:19Samuel KingCORRESPONDENT
But it's already causing confusion.
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2:21speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I fear of what