Lawsuit failed. New York Elections Board on Friday released its certified election results.
The lawsuit failed to stop the certification.
However, investigation of the election problems will be ongoing, and people whose affidavit ballots were rejected still have a chance to appeal the decision.
Results here:
http://vote.nyc.ny.us/downloads/pdf/election_results/2016/20160419Presidential%20Primary/01000200000Citywide%20Democratic%20President%20Citywide%20Recap.pdf
https://indypendent.org/2016/05/07/elections-board-certifies-primary-vote-rejects-91000-provisional-ballots
After presiding over a chaotic Democratic presidential primary on April 19, the New York City Board of Elections released its certified election results Friday afternoon showing that it has rejected 91,000 provisional affidavit ballots, or about three out of every four cast that day.
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According to Jonathan Clarke, a lawyer with voter advocacy group Election Justice USA, the voters behind those 90,000 affidavits must request the status of their ballot in person at the BOE’s office and contest it in court if they feel it was wrongly set aside.
People whose votes were excluded must act quickly to contest their affidavit status, given the BOE's recent certification.
“Certification is sort of symbolic in some sense. There’s been a couple occasions before in New York City when they’ve certified an election and they went back and looked at affidavit ballots, absentee ballots, and they got added or subtracted from the total,” Clarke told internet news show The Young Turks on Thursday.
“The certification formally starts the process where everything will become official,” Clarke added, explaining that certification initiates New York election law 16-106 which gives voters the right to challenge their rejected ballot in state court.
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