In what’s shaping up to be yet another Democrat-led disaster for election integrity, the New York City Board of Elections has confirmed that at least two deceased individuals somehow cast ballots in the city’s recent Republican primary. Now, calls are intensifying for a full-blown investigation — and not just from conservatives.
According to documents obtained by the *New York Post*, absentee ballots were submitted in the names of Juliet Windvan and Antoinette Garzaniti — two individuals who, for the record, are no longer living. These votes were cast in Brooklyn’s District 47 GOP primary between candidates Richie Baramaian and George Sarantopoulous, raising serious questions about how deep the rot goes inside New York’s bloated, unaccountable election apparatus.
Veteran election attorney Martin Connor didn’t mince words:
“These apparent facts really call for a district attorney investigation. They need to find out how someone other than the voter was able to obtain and submit the absentee ballots.”
Even Democrats are now being forced to confront what many conservatives have warned about for years: that lax oversight, careless voter roll maintenance, and mail-in ballot loopholes have turned our elections into a fraudster’s playground.
One of the most disturbing testimonies came from Linda Smith, the daughter of deceased voter Antoinette Garzaniti. Shocked to learn that her late mother had “voted,” Smith said,
“That is amazing. I find this unbelievable.”
She added that her family had regularly received ballots addressed to her mother, which they always tore up — but now she’s left wondering: “Who is doing it?”
That question echoed again when 87-year-old William Allen received a “cure notice” in the mail — even though he never voted in the primary. According to his son, Justin Allen, both father and son shredded the ballot they received, only to find out later someone had submitted one anyway.
“I think it’s terrible that somebody cast a ballot in my father’s name, especially in an election that was so close,” Justin said. “Whoever committed fraud could’ve been the one getting elected.”
Unfortunately, this isn’t an isolated incident. Just last month, Mount Vernon — a Democrat-controlled city in Westchester County — came under fire when it was revealed that its voter rolls were riddled with dead registrants. In just over a year, the city added more than *10,000* new voter IDs — a jaw-dropping 25% increase in a city of roughly 40,000 people.
Bill Schwartz, a candidate for Mount Vernon City Council, expressed what many Americans are thinking:
“When the voter rolls are that sloppy and no one at the Board of Elections is answering questions, you start to wonder what else is slipping through the cracks — or being pushed through them.”
Even watchdog groups are acknowledging the problem. John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, admitted voter fraud is “easy to detect” if done on a wide enough scale. But he also admitted what many on the Left don’t want to say out loud: it still happens.
“That doesn’t stop various knuckleheads from trying,” Kaehny added.
This isn’t just about a few ballots or isolated incidents — it’s about a systematic failure of accountability. It’s about a culture of complacency that lets dead people vote and fake ballots slip into the system, all while political elites pretend everything’s fine. For a country built on free and fair elections, this kind of negligence is dangerous — and it undermines public faith in democracy itself.
As candidate Bill Schwartz put it,
“This isn’t just about party politics. It’s about fairness. If we want people to have faith in our elections, then the rules need to apply to everyone — no matter how connected they are.”
New York’s Board of Elections has some serious explaining to do. And if we’re serious about restoring trust in America’s elections, it’s long past time to clean house. Dead voters shouldn’t be deciding live elections — period.
