The Republican co-chairman of the Board of Elections also questioned New York’s top election enforcement official about why he seemed disinterested in any inquiry pursuing the source of the leak.
The Erie County Democratic Committee paid $10,000 in restitution last month, to the family of the late Thomas Newman, former First Ward Councilman of the City of Tonawanda. The restitution was paid after the New York State Board of Elections Division of Election Law Enforcement (DELE) investigated a complaint filed in October 2021 by Newman,