Congressional primary day brought ballot troubles in the race for New York’s 19th District when a third name was incorrectly listed on ballots in Columbia County.
Andrew Heaney is calling on the state Board of Elections to investigate the faulty ballots which included Bob Bishop, who withdrew from the race in early May and threw his support behind John Faso. Heaney’s campaign sought an impound order for the ballots in Columbia County. Meanwhile, Faso’s campaign also released a statement saying that the ballots incorrectly featuring three candidates could not be counted by the optical scanning machine that was programmed with two candidates on the ballot. A Faso spokesman says that according to the state Board of Elections, voters in Columbia County were instructed to place their ballots into a separate slot on the scanning machine for provisional ballots and that replacement ballots were to be at all polling places no later than 4 p.m.
