April 23 11:30 am ET Hearing - Court Fight
If we want elections we can have confidence in
Court Challenge Charges Gross Irregularities and Reports of Bribery in Harlem Election
New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - October 29, 2024) - SMART Elections and its Co-founder and Executive Director, Lulu Friesdat, are lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Thursday, October 17th, against the New York City Board of Elections (NYCBOE).
The legal action depicts gross irregularities in the handling of voting equipment and ballots, reports of bribery, a lack of notification to some voters, and rampant illegal electioneering in the June 2024 New York Democratic Primary Election in Assembly District 70.
The election included a highly competitive race for an open seat in the New York Assembly, representing Harlem and parts of the Upper West Side. These findings raise serious concerns about the legitimacy of the election and the certified results. The lawsuit calls for a new supervised special election.
Read the rest of the press release.
April 23, 2025 11:30am EDT Court Hearing
We will present Oral Arguments in our case against the New York City Board of Elections. You may have found out about SMART Elections because of the 2024 presidential elections, but we have been fighting for clean, fair, trustworthy, transparent elections for years.
The very problems that we have identified in this New York City election may be lurking in your own local elections and contributing to problems with the national election results.
At the end of the day—all elections in the U.S. are local—so we must identify and repair them at the local level.
What we are learning in this election, we are also applying to the national 2024 research and investigation we are engaged in.
Livestream Link Coming for the April 23 11:30 am Court Hearing - Check SMARTelections.us on the morning of 4/23
We have requested a link for the livestream from the court.
No one is allowed to record the court hearing, so if you would like to watch, you must check SMARTelections.us on the morning of 11/23 and get the livestream link.
The link will be posted as soon as we have it. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 11:30am EDT.
View the Exhibits
The Exhibts are astonishing.
Reports of cash payments under the table to poll workers
Statistical irregularities with less than a .01% chance of occurring randomly.
66% of the ballot boxes in the audit were missing seals & No logs for seals on ballots or equipment
A mislabeled ballot bag with zero votes for the losing candidate (Exhibit D-2 p. 7))
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The very fact that this hearing exists is a reminder that public trust is not granted —it’s cultivated, audit by audit, question by question. When irregularities surface, sunlight is the only path back to coherence.
Three pulses I’m tracking as we move toward (or now reschedule) April 23:
1. Transparency as a Civic Right, not a Courtesy
Every ballot chain-of-custody log, every affidavit, every exhibit should be visible in one searchable hub. Democracy depends on receipts we can all inspect without a lawyer’s paywall.
2. Process over Partisanship
Election integrity work succeeds only when it refuses ideological bait. Your team’s non-partisan stance keeps the focus where it belongs: on the systemic mechanics—seals, counts, observer access—rather than on which side might gain.
3. Micro-Action, Macro-Impact
If 1% of voters volunteer one shift as observers—or donate one hour’s wage to fund forensic audits—the aggregate vigilance becomes its own security layer. Small, distributed commitments scale faster than any single watchdog can.
Grateful to SMART Elections for doing the slow, unglamorous labor of documentation. However the court rules, the real win is a public record detailed enough for future reform. Onward to elections we can all verify, pixel by pixel, vote by vote.
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