New York School Clerk Tore Up, Trashed Ballots to Help Preferred Candidate

investigation, Pratt won the election by 81 votes after receiving an unusually high share of absentee and early mail ballots.

Investigators found that although Pratt finished third in votes cast on voting machines, he received 87% of absentee ballots and 55% of early mail ballots.

Other candidates, by comparison, each received fewer than 100 absentee continue reading …