From the Albany Times Union:

Dozens of Rensselaer County workers and others have been served with federal grand jury subpoenas as part of an intensifying FBI investigation that’s examining the filing of absentee ballots in elections over the past two years.

The subpoenas seeking testimony before a federal grand jury beginning later this month have been issued to numerous rank-and-file county workers as well as to Jason Schofield, the Republican commissioner for the county’s Board of Elections. Sources said the subpoenas were served on individuals who may have done campaign work or who had absentee ballots issued on their behalf….

The Times Union reported in November and December that absentee ballots handled by Crist and Gordon were being examined by both State Police and FBI agents in separate investigations….

The federal investigators are examining Gordon’s role in gathering absentee ballots at a public housing complex in Lansingburgh. State Police investigators were reviewing Crist’s involvement with absentee ballots in the Rensselaer mayoral race; they seized incumbent Mayor Michael Stammel’s mobile phone in mid-December at City Hall.