Hearing Scheduled For Election Clerk In Address Flap
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A top Brooklyn election official accused of falsifying her address will have a chance to speak in her own defense at a hearing on December 20, the city’s Board of Elections said.
The chief clerk for Brooklyn’s Board of Elections, Diane Haslett-Rudiano, 64, was asked to resign two weeks ago by Democratic election commissioners after an investigation revealed she had given a false address on voter registration forms, according to a report yesterday in the Daily News.
A spokesman for the Board of Elections, Christopher Riley, yesterday confirmed that Ms. Haslett-Rudiano will have a hearing before two election commissioners, one Democratic and one Republican. Mr. Riley said Ms. Haslett-Rudiano has not resigned and will continue in her current position pending the December 20 inquiry. She “will have a chance to defend herself at that hearing,” Mr. Riley said.
Ms. Haslett-Rudiano is an elected district leader for the Brooklyn Republican Party in addition to her position at the Board of Elections. Voter registration records list her address since 1988 as being 258 Schenck Ave. in East New York, yet she reportedly lives in Forest Hills, Queens. Giving a false voting address is a felony.
Ms. Haslett-Rudiano’s address also was challenged last year in a petition filed in Brooklyn court by Samuel Sloan, who charged that GOP leaders in Brooklyn had tried to prevent him from running for Congress in the 10th congressional district.
A call to Ms. Haslett-Rudiano’s office in Brooklyn was directed, through her assistant, to the city’s Board of Election headquarters. A message left at an address listed under her name was not returned.
A Department of Investigation report about Ms. Haslett-Rudiano has not been made public, and a spokeswoman for the city agency would not comment on its findings. A vote by the city’s 10 Board of Elections commissioners on whether to release the report fell largely along party lines, the Daily News reported, and the commissioners decided instead to allow Ms.Haslett-Rudiano to defend herself in a hearing.
