NYS Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright was cited by town Board of Elections for -- as soon as once more -- nominating petitions errors.
Daniel William McKnight
They’re going to have to start out calling her Seawrong.
Higher East Facet Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright, who was practically booted off the poll in 2020 over a paperwork error, was dinged once more by town Board of Elections final week for submitting defective nominating petitions.
The Manhattan Democrat acquired a non-compliance discover from the board on April 6, BOE Deputy Govt Director Vincent M. Ignizio instructed The Put up.
“I haven’t seen the Assemblywoman out doing the work to assist our neighbors instantly so I don’t know what she was doing when she wasn’t filling out her paperwork appropriately,” stated Patrick Bobilin, a Democratic Socialist who's difficult Seawright for the nomination (and likewise made errors to his petitions which have since been corrected).
The errors this time round included failing to print her title on the quilt sheet and leaving off web page numbers. The errors have been “minor errors” which had already been fastened, stated Ignizio, who added a number of different candidates had made related errors.
Small errors can have huge penalties, nevertheless, underneath New York CIty’s famously archaic election legal guidelines. Seawright made headlines two years in the past when she did not file cowl sheets together with her paperwork and was finally booted off the Democratic and Working Households occasion poll traces. She solely managed to grasp onto the seat within the common election after forming her personal unbiased line.
Staff Seawright instructed The Put up the problems had been resolved.
“She is totally licensed. She is on the poll. There isn't a points in any respect as we sit right here immediately,” a spokesman stated.
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