Thought she was in California, did she?

Long Island school clerk caught tearing up ballots, trashing votes to help her candidate win: probe

A Long Island school clerk overseeing board of education elections tore up ballots and threw them in a dumpster to help her favorite candidate win, a newly revealed internal probe found.

Hempstead Union Free School District Clerk April Keys allegedly rigged the May 19 trustee election by smuggling official ballots out of her office and handing absentee ballots to favored candidate Victor Pratt so he could trash them, according to a 51-page petition filed by the district with the state Education Department.

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Question marks were first raised by the district after it discovered major irregularities in its election.

Pratt won by just 81 votes — boosted by a suspiciously large number of absentee and early mail ballots that boosted him to the win even though he only came in third on machine voting, the probe found.

Pratt racked up 87% of absentee votes and 55% of early mail votes, compared to just 27% of in-person machine votes – while other trustee candidates received fewer than 100 absentee and early mail ballots combined, the probe found.

Fortunately, this kind of voter fraud is restricted to just one small, inconsequential school district; except for Hempstead Union, our voting system is 100% trustworthy, and universal absentee balloting and mail-in voting has only made it even more secure.

By the way, missing from the article is any mention of what, if anything, is being done to the candidate* who actually destroyed the ballots after the clerk gave them to him — arrested? Will he still be on the ballot if an election do-over is granted? Gotta love curious reporters.

*Victor Pratt, convicted of drunk driving and then arrested last year for reckless driving while his license was suspended, but no one’s perfect, eh?