Brooklyn Judge Keeps Lid on Queens DA Elex Fix --- Won't Allow a Newsman to Inspect Uncounted Affidavit Ballots or Calculate if Their Elimination Affected the Outcome of the 2019 DA Primary in Queens

One of Mike Long's old buds, John G. Ingram, had some loose ends to tie up in connection with his controversial earlier decision following the 2019 Democratic Primary wherein the Regular Organization Queens Democrat candidate Melinda Katz was declared the winner over Tiffany Caban, an independent reform Democrat, who had a large unofficial lead according to all news outlets on Primary Night 2019

Ingram took the easy way out for himself and the NYC Board of Elections, by keeping the contents of approximately 350 unopened and uncounted affidavit ballots secret  ---  according to the judge's November 19th  Decision, which was not filed until the day before Thanksgiving, even though, the provisions of the NYS Election Law called for the preservation of and allowing the inspection of ballots for two years following an election or primary 

According to Judge Ingram, the election law provisions did not apply to these more than 350 affidavit ballots, because they had been found to be invalid by the BOE;  and as a result of the BOE ruling, these affidavit ballots in the Queens DA Primary remained unopened and uncounted to this very day

Here's the long and the short of Justice Ingram's Decision:  since the BOE had ruled that these affidavit ballots were not valid, and they were neither opened nor counted by the BOE, hence they were never treated as ballots in the 2019 Democratic Primary for Queens DA, thus they were not in the category of ballots to be preserved and/or made available for inspection under the terms of the NYS Election Law

For the Ingram Decision in the case brought by a Brooklyn investigative reporter  (See  "In the Matter of  Theodore Hamm, Petitioner,  v.  The Board of Elections in the CIty of New York, Respondent  [Sup. Ct. Queens County,  Index No.:  6165/2019]).

A former supporter of the insurgent Queens DA candidate, Tiffany Caban has informed me that attorneys for Mr. Hamm do intend to appeal the November decision by Judge Ingram.