Judge Orders DNA Tests for City Officials in Ballot Fraud Case Over Alternative Party Primary
A state-court judge has ordered officials in Troy, N.Y., to take DNA tests to help prosecutors determine who may or may not be responsible for alleged absentee ballot fraud in an alternative party primary election a year ago.
Court records concerning a search-warrant request claim that individuals affiliated with the Rensselaer County Democratic Party may have conspired to submit fraudulent absentee ballots in order to try to gain the Working Families Party ballot line for the Democrats in the general election, reports the Albany Times Union.
Attorney James Long, who represents one of the officials from whom DNA is being sought in the Rensselaer County case, contends that the evidence is being sought without probable cause.
“No witness says my client filled out an absentee ballot,” he tells the newspaper, adding: “It is a pure fishing expedition.”
