Since the November election, we have seen countless articles from Newsday suggesting potential illegality regarding the votes cast on the Working Families Party (WFP) in the town of Huntington.
It appears that Republican loyalists fielded a candidate for the WFP to oppose the far-left candidate suggested by the state party.
So where’s the illegality here?
It was suggested that the octogenarian woman on the ballot did not know she was a candidate. If there were indeed shenanigans in placing a person’s name on the ballot without her knowledge, there should be consequences. But the question remains: if this woman voted for herself in both the primary and the general election, how could she not have known she was on the ballot?
Moreover, there is nothing unusual about Republicans or Democrats trying to get their own candidates elected to a different line. That’s what primaries are all about.
Instead of all the focus on the Republicans who were shrewd enough to try to get a non-socialist onto the WFP line to deflect votes from the Democratic candidate, why didn’t the Democrats and the WFP leadership work harder to defeat the insurgent?
This doesn’t seem to be a question of legality. It looks more like a matter of basic politics.