The saga in New York state around the photocopied fake petition signatures submitted by Republican Lee Zeldin’s gubernatorial campaign committee continues to wildly spin. The uproar has escalated to the point where the state Senate’s Elections Committee chair, Democrat Zellnor Myrie, is requesting the Albany District Attorney launch an investigation, to determine “who committed these criminal acts” of giving the Board of Elections over 11,000 photocopied duplicate signatures, out of the total of 50,000 submitted. The signatures were gathered on behalf of the Independence Party, and were supposed to secure Zeldin a third ballot position, in addition to the Republican and Conservative slots he already had for his campaign.
Moreover, the New York state Republican Party has just confessed to media that the signed Independence Party petitions were dropped off and assembled at the Republican Party’s headquarters on State Street in Albany, and bound together there before being submitted to the Board of Elections on May 31. Before this location was confirmed and reported by the Albany Times Union, the location where the inclusion of the photocopied signatures occurred, was unknown.