“CORRUPTION AT ITS UGLIEST:” GUSTAVO RIVERA FOR STATE SENATE RESPONDS TO POLL SITE HARASSMENT & ELECTIONEERING TO PROP UP OPPONENT’S FAILING CAMPAIGN

 

 In response to incidents of electioneering across the Bronx, in which poll workers have told voters who to vote for and allowed campaign workers from Sen. Gustavo Rivera’s opponent to electioneer at poll sites, David Guirgis, campaign spokesperson for State Sen. Gustavo Rivera issued the following statement:

“We’ve been hearing from voters across SD-33 of election irregularities occurring within poll sites—from campaign workers for Miguelina Camilo campaigning within election sites to poll workers attempting to tell voters to mark her down on their ballots. We also have documented evidence of these incidents occurring.

“It is blatantly against the law to use your position as a poll worker to tell voters who to vote for, and it is also illegal to campaign within 100 feet of a polling site. Miguelina Camilo, who used to work for the Board of Elections, knows this.

“This is corruption at its ugliest. The Board of Elections needs to immediately conduct inspections of poll sites across SD-33, and the Miguelina Camilo campaign and the Bronx Democratic machine must condemn these undemocratic, illegal activities. Voters deserve free and fair elections—period.” 

Below is a breakdown of the electioneering incidents that have so far occurred:

• A BOE worker told a voter that "Gustavo is a baby killer.”

• A poll site worker who self-identified as an “elections director” told a Gustavo Rivera supporter to "be nice to Miguelina's crew."

• A photo of a Miguelina Camilo campaign worker breaking the hundred-foot rule and electioneering within a poll site can be found here. 

EDITOR'S NOTE:

This is not a third world nation where corruption such as this can take place, this is New York City in the greatest nation of the world the United States of America. 

If this is going on at poll sites those responsible must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must have free and fair elections otherwise we are no better than a communist country where there is only one person on the ballot.