Corine Sheldon News Today

Just weeks before Election Day, Rensselaer County legislators have finally filled the role for its Republican Board of Elections Commissioner– a position left v

Acting Republican Board of Elections Commissioner Corine Sheldon resigned on Tuesday night.

Timeline of federal and state investigations into absentee ballot fraud at Rensselaer County Board of Elections

Jason T. Schofield was arrested by the FBI on Sept. 13 for fraudulently obtaining and filing absentee ballots last year for at least eight voters without their permission. Schofield has been charged with 12 felony counts.

The Times Union reported in June that Jason Schofield had become a focus of an FBI investigation that led to the guilty plea earlier this year of a Troy councilwoman

GOP employees at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections have recently been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Albany.