By COLlive reporter
Chaim Deutsch is running for congress, but you wouldn’t know that at the ballot.
A Jewish resident of the Kingston section of Brooklyn is said to have discovered that Deutsch’s name was not listed at the poll site at the Murrow High School.
“A guy went to vote this morning at Murrow, Chaim’s name was NOT on ballots he was handed nor on posted ballots,” according to a text shared by Deutsch’s campaign staff. “He was told Chaim Not in this district!! After threatening them, they “found” the ballot!!!!!”
Councilmember Deutsch is running in the Democratic primary for New York’s 9th Congressional District. He is facing incumbent Yvette D. Clarke, Adem Bunkeddeko, Lutchi Gayot, and Isiah James.
If he wins, he will become the first yarmulka-wearing Orthodox Jewish member of Congress. Some of his staffers worry that there’s an organized and illegal effort against him.
“There’s a number of accusations,” one of them told COLlive.com on Tuesday afternoon. “There’s a big suppression of the vote across the Jewish community – especially in Kensington and Crown Heights.”
One example is the polling site inside a church on Linden Blvd. in East Flatbush. That would have barred Jews from entering on the basis of religious adherence. The Board of Elections promised to erect a tent outdoors.
But one Jewish resident reported to COLlive.com that no tent has been erected. Instead, a sign was hung offering residents who could not vote due to their “religious scruples” to vote at the 4th floor of the Brooklyn Borough Office at 345 Adams Street.
The resident added that “election officials at the church brought out a ballot and one had to trust them to actually cast the ballot for him.”
The Deutsch campaign stated that those who have not voted yet and are registered Democrats can text the number 917-886-1558 to receive absentee ballots.
i think there needs to be a re-election done fairly.
I am the person who went to vote and spoke with them. I do want to correct the image of the voting booth. The attendants present were VERY friendly and accommodating. They were dealing with bureaucracy that was beyond their control.
It’s more important to go vote no matter where it is.
What ever happened to separation of Church and State?
Tampering with the vote is punishable with jail time yet suddenly there are no consequences when it’s the Jewish vote, or when it was the republican vote.. Silencing the Jewish voice, silencing a party’s voice has, historically, been an ominous precursor to fascist regimes. Swift action needs to be taken. This should engage our interest far more than the opening up of restaurants. Wake up people!
The new world is to silence all normalcy. They will do the same to our great president. He should declare that he’s not conceding unless he loses by 50 million votes. A professor that’s a dem already has spoken in Congress, that for sure a minimum of 25-30 million votes are going to be stolen and he’s a DEM
Can you please explain to me in clear understandable terms why I’m being told that if I vote in the congressional elections as a republican, my vote doesn’t count. I was told that it’s considered as a wasted vote in Brooklyn.
Thank you
Because whoever has the most votes wins the election and there are 850,000 democrats in brooklyn and 100,000 republicans so there will never ever be a race that has more republican votes then democrat votes.
But in this district the Republican has no chance whatsoever of winning. Whoever won the Democratic primary today (Clarke) will win the seat in November, no matter what. To borrow a phrase, the Democrat could shoot someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and she would still defeat whichever Republican bothers to run against her. So the only way you can actually have a chance of affecting the result is to vote in the only election where Clarke is at least in principle vulnerable, which is the Democrat primary.
I was given 2 ballots to choose candidates from, one had all the Demokracic presidential candidates plus all the delegates to the Demokracik convention, which I couldn’t care a less about and left blank. The other form was the same. So I went back to the desk and asked the woman where’s the ballot for the congressional race and she reluctantly handed me the proper ballot.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a conspiracy among all the (black) workers there, especially these days!