White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Bradley: No Votes Shown for 3 Offices in Districts 9 & 13, White Plains

WPCNR Morning Sun. By John F. Bailey. September 16, 2002 UPDATED 2:37 P.M. E.D.T.:Monday morning, Adam Bradley clarified that the "complete" canvass from the Board of Elections he inspected Friday shows no votes cast in Districts 9 & 13 for the offices of, Assembly, County Courts and State Committee.

The Governor and Comptroller races appear on the front of the "complete" canvass, with the Assembly, Court and State Committee Delgates races appearing on the back, Mr. Bradley explained, and there are no votes recorded for those three offices.

He clarified his statement given to WPCNR yesterday, saying that he did have numbers reported to him for assembly from those two districts by his campaign workers Election Night.

By his workers' examinations of the original canvass sheets, the votes in 9 & 13 put him "slightly ahead," going into Tuesday's "official" recanvasses in Harrison, Lewisboro, Bedford, North Castle and White Plains.

Roach: Numbers Check Out in Friday's Recanvasses.

The recanvasses of Mount Kisco, New Castle and Pound Ridge voting machines, conducted on Friday, according to Tom Roach, White Plains City Councilman, agreed with the Bradley campaign election night numbers. Roach did comment though that some machines were not sealed properly, and at one facility, Pound Ridge, not under police guard. Roach confirmed that the Pound Ridge Town Clerk, Suzanne Beatty, said she had never received the impoundment order from the Board of Elections.

Bradley: Our Numbers Match the Recanvasses Conducted Friday.

Mr. Bradley confirmed Mr. Roach's report from the northern districts Monday morning, saying his (Bradley's) Election Night reports "jive" with numbers recorded and confirmed on the voting machines Friday.

Bradley supporters as late as Saturday afternoon had told WPCNR they did not have numbers for Districts 9 & 13 (the machine at Ridgeway School), so could not verify the numbers. Sunday, Bradley told WPCNR this was not correct, that he did have numbers from reported from his workers from Districts 9 & 13 Election Night (not at Board of Elections, as previously reported), showing votes for him and his opponent in the 9th and 13th districts.

Bradley: "complete" was not really complete.

The issue of a possible jammed voting machine in District 9 & 13, is now laid to rest with Bradley's report that his workers had seen the numbers and they were there Tuesday.

Did they forget?

However, Bradley was disturbed that the Board of Elections reported as "complete," results that showed no votes for either him or Ms. Matusow in District 9 and 13 on their website. If there were no votes cast for three offices, Election Inspectors would have seen that as a "red flag" and most likely would have reported the missing numbers.

Bradley said the canvass sheet he saw at the Board of Elections Friday for District 9 & 13 showed 184 Democrats voted, with 174 votes for Governor, and votes for Comptroller but on the back of the sheet nothing was recorded for the three offices of Assembly, County Courts and the State Commttee offices.

Without saying so, Bradley raised the possibility that the inspectors simply forgot to fill in the numbers for those three offices.

Bradley allowed that if the machine does show "zero" vote counts for those three offices, when it is opened up then the Board of Elections has a real problem, perhaps a jammed machine.

Bradley added he has found some mistakes in transferring numbers from original canvass sheets to the BOE-described "Complete" Canvass.

Impoundment Mystery

Bradley made clearer the circumstances surrounding Tuesday evening's impoundment, which all Town Clerks in the 89th Assembly District never received until Thursday morning, and only after WPCNR alerted the Board of Elections to that fact.

Bradley said there was no excuse for the impoundment order not being served early by midnight Tuesday night or at latest early Wednesday morning because Carolee Sunderland, Commissioner of the Board of Elections observed the Judge signing the Impoundment Order. Pound Ridge, for example never received the Impoundment Order.

Down the Stretch They Come.

The recanvasses in Harrison, Lewisboro, Bedford, White Plains and North Castle will tell the story as machines in the districts in those towns will be examined. But, the latest White Plains "extended election" still has approximately 60 absentee ballots and affidavited ballots to count, to add to the recanvass.

Note: In the previous edition of this story, WPCNR had reported that Mr. Bradley had said there were no votes for Comptroller. Mr. Bradley contacted WPCNR to correct the error, and we apologize for the misunderstanding.


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