Dick Dadey,executive director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, explains the different Board of Election in New York State and City, or how members accept their jobs,what they do and how they could be reformed.
The State Board of Elections is an independent body, appointed by the major state officials.
And recently, or Mayor de Blasio asserted that the BOE's lawyer may have purposely over-interpreted finance finance law so she could refer some of his campaign fundraising activity to prosecutors for criminal investigation."The mayor is correct - this should not have been leaked to the press,and I'm surprised that it was," said Dadey. Dady suspects there was a political motivation behind it to embarrass the mayor.
Dadey said it's necessary to remember that Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman made this recommendation to four commissioners of the BOE, and who needed to have signed off on it for it to reach the Manhattan DA. Three of those commissioners are lawyers,steeped in election law. So this doesn't seem to be a political witchhunt.
As for the major purge of voters from the rolls before the New York Primary, Dadey said: "I don't contemplate there was any planned attempt to disenfranchise voters. I contemplate it was sheer incompetence."
Source: wnyc.org