http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/qns_dem_voters_are_real_fishy_GmqsDnq3aXpKKgEtY1lXGK
By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief
Last Updated: 9:17 AM, September 15, 2009
Posted: 5:01 AM, September 15, 2009
Her husband died 10 years ago, so a Queens woman was
startled to get a letter from the Board of Elections notifying her that he had
changed his voter-registration form last month.
A Philadelphia businessman was equally perplexed when he
received a letter saying his 92-year-old mother had filed a new
voter-registration card in July that didn't match her previous form.
"She's legally blind and suffering from dementia,"
the son told The Post yesterday. "I told them the reason for this
discrepancy is because the information is fraudulent."
Officials say those voter-registration forms were among
1,913 delivered to the Queens board between Aug. 3 and 17 by Lilianna Zulunova,
campaign manager for Albert Cohen, one of six candidates running to succeed
Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D-Queens) in today's Democratic primary election.
More than half the registrations -- 1,037 -- had missing
information, so the board sent out letters to the registrants asking that they
supply the data.
Ninety-two were returned as undeliverable. In at least three
cases, the registrants turned out to be dead.
Board officials removed those and other suspect
registrations from the voter rolls and alerted higher-ups at central
headquarters, who say they will conduct a "review" after the November
election.
Zulunova insisted that Cohen's campaign, which conducted the
first exhaustive voter-registration drive in the Bukharan Jewish community, had
nothing to do with any fake registrations.
"If they're dead, they're no good to me -- they can't vote,"
she declared.
david.seifman@nypost.com