From the NYT, reports of what sounds like old-fashioned election fraud in a GOP city council primary:

The New York City Board of Elections asked prosecutors on Friday to investigate possible ballot stuffing and votes being cast by dead people in a hotly contested City Council race in southern Brooklyn.

After a second day of hand recounting on Friday, George Sarantopoulos, a businessman, led Richie Barsamian, chairman of the Republican Party in Brooklyn, by a mere 16 votes in the G.O.P. primary in District 47.

Particularly troubling for election authorities was the late discovery of 22 paper ballots that officials said were not scanned by the voting machines on election night. The surprise comes on the heels of a report in The New York Post that two absentee ballots were cast by voters who are dead and another by a man who said he did not vote and has no primary voting history going back to the 1980s.

One of the dead voters would be 107 years old, the other 101, records show.

Rick comments here. While there’s usually less than meets the eye when fraud is alleged, this one seems like it could potentially be real.