Sullivan BOE grants majority of challenges to Bloomingburg dissolution voters MONTICELLO – Sullivan County’s two elections commissioner granted 28 challenges against residents in the September 30 vote to dissolve the Village of Bloomingburg. Another five challenges were denied. After the special election, resident Anita Hoppe filed post registration challenges and affidavits against 194 voters in the village alleging the voters have not met the minimum state mandated residency requirements that would qualify them to vote in the special election. The commissioners examined those people who voted and those who did not. “While the commissioners concede that the vagaries of New York election law do allow voters with multiple residences to choose one from which they wish to vote, the law also stipulates that there must be significant as well as verifiable ties to the address and community that they so designate,” Commissioners Ann Prusinski and Rodney Gaebel wrote in their decision. “Failure to establish residence on that basis is tantamount to the aura of sham perpetrated this past March.” The commissioners’ examination of questionnaires mailed to 194 people who were challenged – 68 were return, found that many were returned to the post office by an individual employed by Shalom Lamm, the man building a Hasidic community in Bloomingburg. A decision on whether the dissolution vote stands has yet to be determined by the State Supreme Court.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:17:35 +0000
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