Board of Elections Resends 99K Voting Ballots after Mail-in Fiasco

The New York City Board of Elections has processed 685,000 mail-in ballots for the upcoming Nov. 3 election and announced Tuesday that they resent 99,000 ballots to voters in Brooklyn after a mailing botch-up by the organization.

After Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed voters to vote through mail-in ballots to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at crowded polling sites, many received return envelopes with other people’s names and addresses. 

The organization blamed the fiasco on their Rochester based Phoenix Graphics printer, which also lost logs following the mechanical glitch. 

The ballots with the correct return envelopes and oath statements have been mailed out to 99,000 voters and will hit mailboxes this week. 

The Board sent out an explanatory letter that recommends voters to destroy prior botched ballots they’d received, with the newly corrected return envelopes. 

Voters can submit absentee ballots at drop off boxes near voting sites. 

Board officials are encouraging people to vote in person at designated polling sites during the nine days of early voting that runs from Oct. 24 to Nov. 1.