Kings Point write-in-ballots challenged

The Village of Kings Point board of trustees election may have been in June, but the angst over disqualified write-in ballots and other issues still lingers.

Two write-in challengers argued successfully to have a state Supreme Court judge in Mineola impound the election results on Wednesday. Now they now plan to ask the attorney general's office to investigate the election.

Incumbent trustees Peter Aron and Ron Horowitz won the June 21 election with 222 and 226 votes, respectively.

Write-in challengers Mojgan Sasson and David Schifter received 58 and 29, respectively, village clerk Gomie Persaud said.

But those tallies do not include 130 write-in ballots that Persaud said were disqualified because they had two names in one spot or were misspelled. Moreover, the outcome would remain the same even with those ballots being counted.

Sasson and Schifter still contend that the votes should have counted.

Their attorney, Norman Kaplan, said he will ask the attorney general's office to set aside the election results and order a new election. The attorney general's office declined to comment.

"I see no reason for the election to be set aside," said Stephen Limmer, Kings Point counsel.

Kaplan said he went to the state for relief because voters were given incorrect instructions by pollworkers and witnesses saw illegal electioneering in the polling place.

Countered Limmer, "I don't see any merit to what he's trying to waste everybody's time with."