Calls are growing for the city to take action against the upstate firm that sent flawed absentee ballots to voters across Brooklyn at a time when President Donald Trump is falsely attacking mail-in voting as fraud-ridden. One elected official wants the company fired, while a second is demanding that the city Board of Elections — […]

City election officials enlisted the firm behind the Brooklyn absentee ballot bungle to handle an elaborate do-over even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo called Wednesday for a simpler approach aimed at fending off White House attacks on mail-in voting. Earlier this week, Phoenix Graphics sent out a print run of 100,000 absentee ballots that included an […]

The upstate firm responsible for sending mislabeled absentee ballot envelopes to thousands of Brooklyn voters notched a $4.6 million, no-bid contract after promising it would get the job done using a system dubbed “Electrack,” records show. “Electrack” apparently went off the rails with a computer glitch that shifted data — spurring a massive wave of […]

Nearly a year after signing off on federal oversight of New York’s ailing public housing system, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Benjamin Carson declared he’s hearing less “horrible things” about NYCHA. Carson argued Wednesday there’s been “substantial improvement” at the city Housing Authority — even as it’s blown numerous deadlines on tackling a fix-it […]

On the same day would-be President Bill de Blasio unveiled a campaign finance reform plan he hopes to take national, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s own fundraising tactics shadowed him at home. A state watchdog agency on Thursday revealed three deep-pocket developers seeking favors from City Hall settled charges that they had made illegal gifts to […]

New York City taxpayers are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for the NYPD security details that accompany Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, nearly every weekend as they hopscotch America in his quest for the White House. South Bend taxpayers have no such burden. The Indiana town’s mayor, Pete Buttigieg, […]