Three of powerful New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s (D) adult children “remained registered to vote in their father’s Lower East Side district long after moving out,” the New York Post reports.
“And they continued to vote for years at the same Delancey Street polling place as their parents — presumably pulling the lever for Papa in his re-election bids — even when, as in the case of one child, they lived out of state.”
Said a Silver spokesman: “The election law is clear that voters have wide latitude to vote from the residence they choose, so long as they are not dually registered. They all vote from only one place, and under New York law that is clearly legal.”