by Jonathan Custodio and Harry Siegel |thecity.us |Editorial credit: Bob Korn / Shutterstock.com Ahead of the Feb. 14 deadline for voters to pick a party affiliation in time to vote in June’s New York City primary, socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been racing to get his supporters registered as Democrats — and one group opposed to […]
By Esther Claudette Gittens | Editorial credit: Shark9208888/ shutterstock.com The NYC matching funds system was established with the noble goal of enhancing democracy by reducing the influence of wealthy donors and empowering small contributors. However, the system has been plagued by fraud, both detected and undetected, largely due to weak internal controls, inadequate auditing practices, […]
