Protesters Pursue Election Questions at Huntington Town Hall
About 90 people rallied outside Huntington Town Hall Tuesday night, demanding change and seeking answers involving the general election the two weeks ago.
Organizer Quinn Dell said that questions that had arisen about the impact of a minor party’s role in the race had shaken voters’ faith that elections could be fair and free.
Some of them them then moved inside and challenged Supervisor Ed Smyth at the Town Board meeting.
When polls closed Nov. 4, Supervisor Ed Smyth (R) had defeated Cooper Macco (D) by 602 votes, according to unofficial Suffolk Board of Elections returns. But some voters grew alarmed and started challenging the results after learning that the unknown 83-year-old Maria Delgado, running for town supervisor, had won 1,195 votes on the Working Families Party line. As more details, some accurate, some not, came out about how Delgado and three other WFP candidates who didn’t run an actual campaign got onto WFP primary ballot and defeated four Democrats, and the long-running practice of major parties putting their favored candidates onto smaller party ballot lines through petitions, many voters raise objections or expressed shock.
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