The “thing” that Democrats claim “never happens” just happened.
An internal investigation has concluded that a Long Island, N.Y., school district clerk improperly handled ballots during a board of education election, prompting officials to seek the results’ reversal and raising the possibility of criminal charges.
According to a 51-page petition filed by the Hempstead Union Free School District with the New York State Education Department, District Clerk April Keys allegedly removed official ballots from her office and provided absentee ballots to incumbent school board candidate Victor Pratt, who investigators allege discarded them.
The district is asking state officials to invalidate the results of the May 19 trustee election, in which Pratt narrowly won another term.
Pratt, a third-term trustee and former president of the school board, also performs as a local DJ under the stage name “DJ Vic-Lover,” according to his public social media profiles.
“The Board of Education Trustee election must be overturned because widespread irregularities affected the outcome of the election and were so pervasive that they vitiated the electoral process,” the filing from the Hempstead school district’s attorneys said.
The petition, filed on June 15 and made public Thursday, asks New York State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa to invalidate the election results and order a new vote.
The district also requested that a replacement clerk oversee the election and that the New York Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau monitor the process.
The school district launched an internal investigation after officials identified what they described as significant irregularities in the election for the unpaid school board trustee positions, the New York Post reported.
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— Lisa Lu (@LisaLu2024) June 29, 2026
According to the district’s investigation, Pratt won the election by 81 votes after receiving an unusually high share of absentee and early mail ballots.
Investigators found that although Pratt finished third in votes cast on voting machines, he received 87% of absentee ballots and 55% of early mail ballots.
Other candidates, by comparison, each received fewer than 100 absentee and early mail votes combined.
Three days after the election, the district placed Keys on administrative leave.
Later that day, Superintendent Gary Rush entered her office and, according to the petition, discovered a large cafeteria-style trash can containing a tied garbage bag that investigators considered unusual and potentially relevant to the inquiry, The Post noted.
According to the district’s petition, Superintendent Gary Rush discovered what investigators identified as official 2026 election ballots inside the garbage bag.
The filing states that Rush immediately secured the clerk’s office and ordered the locks to be changed.
The petition further alleges that when investigators returned four days later, the garbage can had been removed.
District officials claim custodian Owen Peters discarded the bag in an outdoor dumpster while a locksmith was replacing the office locks, said the outlet.
According to the filing, Peters later directed investigators to the bag, which they found sitting in approximately one foot of standing water inside the dumpster, The Post reported.
According to the district’s petition, investigators recovered torn cast ballots for both Pratt and his leading challenger, Gwendolyn Jackson, along with shredded early mail ballot applications containing voters’ names, addresses and signatures.
The filing also says investigators found unused ballots and election tally sheets mixed in with the discarded materials.
The petition further states that Jackson’s campaign coordinator, identified as Allah Supreme Mathematics, told investigators he delivered approximately 120 completed early mail ballots to the district clerk’s office on election night.
However, the investigation found that only 79 of those ballots were ultimately counted, with no explanation provided for the missing 33 ballots, according to the filing.
According to the district’s petition, investigators also reviewed security footage that they say showed the custodian leaving Keys’ office carrying a bag containing ballots.
The filing further alleges that Keys instructed the custodian on how to avoid being caught while removing the materials.
According to the petition, surveillance footage from the night before the election allegedly shows Pratt arriving at the district clerk’s office carrying a manila folder.
