White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Attorney General's Panel Doesn't Request Breakdown of District 18 Voting Machine

WPCNR Sunset Sentinel Courier. August 5, 2002: City Clerk for the City of White Plains, Janice Minieri, advised WPCNR today that the investigative panel of attorneys appointed by Eliot Spitzer, New York's Attorney General met with her, her custodians, and election inspectors Friday morning as part of their investigation of whether or not the Attorney General's office should bring a quo warranto action on behalf of Larry Delgado, White Plains deposed Councilman, restoring Mr. Delgado to his seat on the Common Council.

Ms. Minieri said the inquiry conducted by the three attorneys was observed by Edward Dunphy, city Corporation Counsel and the two Deputy Commissioners from the Westchester County Board of Elections.

She reports that their questions centered on procedures undertaken by the custodians to set the voting machines up for the election on November 6, 2002, and whether or not there was anything unusual that election inspectors observed in the District 18 location that day. She reports that her inspectors said there was nothing unusual reported during that fateful election day.

WPCNR asked if they viewed the voting machine. Minieri said they did and observed "exactly what you saw (the jammed Delgado counter wheel) the day we opened the machine."

What Happened to the Delgado "Counter" Still in Doubt Because Attorneys Do Not Ask for Breakdown.

WPCNR asked whether the attorneys asked her custodians to remove the back of the voting machine to see exactly what had happened to the jammed Delgado counter, what made it jam, and she reported they had not.

"No one took it apart," she said. "They were mainly concerned with what the process is, and whether there was anything unusual taking place at the polling place."

Minieri said she would continue to keep the machine in question in its present condition, "just in case it is needed. I'm glad I didn't have it repaired."


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