Thursday, October 18, 2018

NYC Civic Engagement Office has Bad Start


New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer is demanding Answers from City Hall after a New Civic Engagement Office sent out Thousands of Letters telling Voters weeks before Election Day they had been Kicked Off Registration Rolls when they hadn't.

Nearly 400,000 People received Letters from Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Democracy NYC" Office, a Unit tasked with Increasing Civic Engagement among New Yorkers.

It is not yet clear who Approved the Message to Voters, which was Signed by "The City of New York" and included the Office's Logo.

Questions also remain about why the City used a Third-Party Vendor, Civis, to Obtain the List of Inactive Voters and not the Board of Elections, where they can get the Information Free of Charge.

Update
The State Board of Elections is demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new “Democracy NYC” Office provide Answers about a Botched Mailing to 400,000 City Voters, or face a Subpoena for the Information. In a letter fired off Wednesday to “Chief Democracy Officer” Ayirini Fonseca-Sabune, Election Board Co-Executive Directors Todd Valentine and Robert Brehm said the Data has to be Delivered by Noon Friday. They said their Office has received “a number of complaints from registered voters”, as has the New York City’s Elections Board, which reported getting 1,600 Calls about the Confusing Mailing from the City.

The Botched 'Inactive' Voter Mailer cost Taxpayers $200K.

City Officials have said Civis did indeed Pull Voting Data from the State Board of Elections but then “scrubbed” those Records to Create a more “accurate” List of “inactive” Voters.










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