Four vying for NYC Board of Elections seat

[hrmjustin]

CELESTE KATZ

Four people vying to become the newest Board of Elections commissioner will line up to be grilled by the City Council in a series of private interviews Wednesday, the Daily News has learned.

As those who've been following our coverage will recall, a slot opened up when Manhattan Democratic Commissioner Gregory Soumas -- who had also served as president of the 10-member bipartisan board, quit July 11.

Soumas was already a marked man when he sent in his one-line resignation: Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman and state Assemblyman Keith Wright had pushed to keep Soumas on.

But the City Council -- capitalizing on Wright's having missed a 2012 renomination deadline -- said it had the power to ignore Wright and consider its own nominees.

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