Annabi calls on voters to denounce fraud at polls
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- October
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Westchester County Legislature candidate Sandy Annabi, a Yonkers councilwoman, is asking her supporters to contact the Justice Department’s voting rights hotline at 800-253-3931 if they encounter unfair treatment at the polls on Election Day.
Annabi is running on minor party lines in the 17th Legislative District against Democratic incumbent Jose Alvarado, who beat her in the primary by five votes.
Annabi has claimed voter fraud in the primary and she has sent her allegations to the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and federal officials, though none have made any public conclusions about her claims.
In a press release this week, she claimed that the Justice Department set up the 800 number to take calls about election fraud in response to her allegations, but a Justice Department spokesman explained to The Journal News that the hotline has previously been available for anyone in the U.S. to call about voting irregularities.
Another interesting item in her release was a reference to Jose Alvarado supporter Wilson Soto, who Annabi claims broke the law by voting in Alvarado’s district.
Soto says he lives in the district but has owned property outside the district.
Alvarado’s campaign disclosure form from July 2009 indicates that Soto made an in-kind contribution of $1,000 and the listed address is well outside the 17th district. Soto said that the home belongs to his fiancee.
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Weak attempt at publicity by Annabi. There is no electioneering allowed inside the polls so how are poll workers going to have any clue who Annabi’s supporters are, let alone single them out with unfair treatment? I used to have a degree of fondness for her, but now Sandy is becoming nothing more than an annoyance.
Mr. Soto claims he lives at 279 South Broadway in the district, a building with twelve apartments, but conspicuously avoided giving the Board of Elections his apartment number. The owner of the building insists Soto has never lived there.
Why hasn’t the Journal News asked Mr. Soto one simple question: in which apartment does he claim to reside? If he refuses to answer, why hasn’t the Journal News sent a reporter to the building to speak with the super, Miskenia Santana, or the other residents?
Why is the Journal News so lah-di-dah about election crimes? One would think you’d be all over this story. Instead, you treat it like a weather report.
In addition, your statement about the Justice Department hotline is erroneous. Ass’t. Atty. General John Russ agreed to come into his office 6:00 A.M. on Tuesday to man the hotline in response to Ms. Annabi’s request conveyed by me.