talk about the voter fraud case and absentee ballot. no comment. no comment. what do you think about it? i have no comment. they re under investigation for what s being called a massive voter fraud scheme. the alleged faking of more than 50 absentee ballots from the working families party during a 2009 primary election. last year, voters named on the ballots told us they never voted by absentee. the applications included phony excuses, like in two cases, bus trip to casino. jessica falsely claimed she was attending a conference in boston. ask you to not write that. did i not. did you not cast a ballot. did you vote? no. but they have your vote at the board of elections. they do. brian s absentee application says he was at home, recovering from a medical procedure. did you fill out absentee ballot application. no, i didn t fill out any of those. so your vote was a fraud? it was. court documents say councilman michael la porda
operatives, investigators want to find out if some ballots were forged that are absentee and will compare the collected d.n.a. with envelopes from the fraudulent ballots. our senior correspondent is live in new york city on this. what do they have to say? reporter: we caught up with the city council meeting and the d.n.a. taken from swabbing saliva, part of a massive voter fraud case voting 50 absentee ballots allegedly forgeries. critics say some democrats tried to fix the working family s party primary last year so democrats could win that. the public officials we talked to insisted they did not do anything wrong. did you do anything wrong? no. did you try to stealen election? no. did you forge ballots? no. but the voters said they did not hand in the ballots in.
talk about the voter fraud case and absentee ballot. no comment. no comment. what do you think about it? i have no comment. they re under investigation for what s being called a massive voter fraud scheme. the alleged faking of more than 50 absentee ballots from the working families party during a 2009 primary election. last year, voters named on the ballots told us they never voted by absentee. the applications included phony excuses, like in two cases, bus trip to casino. jessica falsely claimed she was attending a conference in boston. ask you to not write that. did i not. did you not cast a ballot. did you vote? no. but they have your vote at the board of elections. they do. brian s absentee application says he was at home, recovering from a medical procedure. did you fill out absentee ballot application. no, i didn t fill out any of those. so your vote was a fraud? it was. court documents say councilman michael la porda
decades at this point? that is the biggest injustice is not only the community and the democratic system but we could be footing the bill for the next 20 years. is there anything in the voter fraud case that we ve heard is being developed this afternoon that is related to the salaries? was there some local ballot measure there that affected the salaries? in the state of california we have limits on what local officials can learn but not what appointed officials can earn. so in 2005 the city went from municipal general law into a charter law so that was done through a special election and that was how they gave themselves permission to be in cahoots, the council members with the city officials to create the giant salaries and pensions. this is a case of political
paying that pension for decades at this point? that s definitely the biggest injustice. not only hassle he bankrupt the community and the democratic system we could be footing the bill for the next 20 years. is there anything in the voter fraud case that we ve heard that s being developed this afternoon, that s related to the salaries? was there some local ballot measure there that affected the salaries? there s a state in the state of california we have limits of what local officials could earn but not what appointed officials could earn. so in 2005, the city went for municipal general law to a charter law. that was done through a special election. that s how they were able to grant themselves permission to be in can hoots with council members with the appointed officials to create these jiept salaries and these giant pensions. this is a case of political