Forged signatures listed on New York City mayor’s re-election campaign petition – report | New York
According to a report published on Friday, more than 50 signatures fraudulent for New York Mayor Eric Adams to be employed as an independent candidate in the November elections.
Gothamist He said he found 52 signatures of people who said that their names were fake, including the signature of three people who died. The publication showed others who said they were deceived to sign their petitions.
If the discovery is approved, it is likely to be insignificant for Adams’s independent campaign, which must produce 7,500 signatures to describe it as a candidate. The Adams campaign has emerged about 50,000 signatures.
Nevertheless, the finding adds the mayor of Democratic Party Candidate Zohran Mamdani, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican Candidate Curtis Sliwa and Jim Walden, who opposes the oldest city in the country’s largest city.
They work independently like Cuomo and Walden and Adams.
Since the publication is looking for ways to survive the election system of the candidates, it is likely to test the defects in the petition system in the future to access the ballot.
Candidates usually employ external contractor to harvest the signatures. In the case of Adams’ petition operation, irregularities together were attributed to at least nine workers who sent more than 5,000 signatures.
A single campaign worker collected more than 700 signatures on a single day, adding that some have been sent in a stunning handwriting in a single building in a single building.
Adam’s campaign did not respond immediately to comments. However, Gothamist told Gothamist that he expected the companies he was expected to comply with the law and that he would make his own examination.
A lawyer for Adams said that the mayor did not direct anyone to violate the law and his campaign would “determine whether any corrective action is necessary”.
Experienced election law lawyer Jerry Goldfeder said that it is not rare to collect invalid signatures.
Goldfeder said, “Every time someone tries to cut the corners and usually caught and sometimes these cases are directed to the regional lawyer or the US lawyer and there is prosecution,” he said.
The report is among the increasing tensions in the city, including New York City Police Officer Didarul Islam, Blackstone manager Wesley Leatner, a security guard, and Julia Hyman, after killing four people in a Midtown office building on Monday.
Adams administration, New York residents, if they find themselves struggling after the attack, while calling to get help and support from mental health services, Mamdani, the previous calls to break the force, the current thought of the current thoughts, he said.
“I don’t break the police,” Mamdani said on Wednesday. Orum I’m not trying to break the police.
“I run as a non -fixed, learning and leading candidate over time, and some of it means accepting it as I have grown. And some of it means focusing on people who deserve to be discussed.”
New York City’s mayor’s elections are planned to be held on November 4th.
