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After errant email, Stefanik calls for election commissioner s resignation
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In this image from video, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks as the House reconvenes to debate the objection to confirm the Electoral College vote from Arizona, after protesters stormed into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (House Television via AP)Associated Press
Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik accused the Democratic commissioner of the St. Lawrence County Board of Elections of doing illegal political work on the job and called for her resignation.
According to a statement issued Friday by a senior Stefanik advisor, Alex deGrasse, the Democratic elections commissioner sent out a rough draft of a political press release attacking Stefanik to the entire New York State Election Commissioners Association during work hours and from a government computer. While unnamed in the Stefanik press release, the St. Lawrence Democratic elections commissioner is Jennie Bacon.
Stefanik advisor says SLC Dem elections commissioner should resign St. Lawrence County Democratic Elections Commissioner Jennie Bacon. (Source: WWNY) By Scott Atkinson | January 15, 2021 at 12:54 PM EST - Updated January 15 at 1:37 PM
CANTON, N.Y. (WWNY) - A senior advisor to north country congresswoman Elise Stefanik called Friday for St. Lawrence County Elections Commissioner Jennie Bacon to resign.
In a statement, Alex Degrasse said Bacon, a Democrat, broke the law when she emailed a press release from the county’s Democratic Party using her work computer.
Bacon said what happened was an accident.
“The email sent on behalf of the NYS Election Commissioners Association inadvertently had the wrong attachment from an email I had recently received,” she said in an emailed statement.