Total number of 135,000 test votes were left in a computer system and added to the tally by accident. This is not the first time that the New York City Board of Elections(NY-CBE).
In 2020 general election, Almost 100,000 Brooklyn voters might receive absentee ballots with someone else’s name on them, meaning their votes would not be counted, according to officials.
In 2014 and 2015, Vox’s Ella Nilsen reported that the BOE purged more than 200,000 voters from rolls in Brooklyn. The reason is over 100,000 voters who had failed to vote or update their forms since 2008, which is illegal under state and federal law.