The city's Board of Elections is coming under heightened scrutiny and may face a grilling from the City Council after initial, unofficial vote results from the February 5 presidential primary undercounted Senator Obama's vote totals and showed him winning no votes in dozens of election districts across the city.
The chairman of the council's Governmental Operations Committee, Simcha Felder, is calling for hearings to examine the way unofficial election results are announced.
"The irregularities in the unofficial presidential primary election results warrant further examination," he told The New York Sun yesterday. "The New York State election process is especially susceptible to human error, and unfortunately these occurrences are frequent."
About 80 election districts in New York initially reported that Mr. Obama received no votes, but tallies released later from the Board of Elections showed that the Illinois senator did collect votes in some of those districts.
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