According to the Committee of Seventy and the League of Women Voters, several voters have had their absentee ballots mailed back to them, instead of sent to the Board of Elections, because of an innocent postal service error. Since the deadline for these ballots was Oct. 29 at 5 p.m., their right to vote may be threatened — which is why Seventy asked city commissioners and the law department to seek a court order today that would extend the absentee deadline.

Bill Rubin, the city's supervisor of elections, says "that's not happening."

Rubin says "maybe three or four people" had this problem, and that it's "not a major issue." He also claims that a few people have already taken their returned absentee ballots to the city commissioners, and had their votes counted.

But what about voters who had their absentee ballots mailed back to them, and then were not able to deliver it to commissioners by the Friday deadline — would their votes be counted? "I'd have to know what the situation was, I don't do hypotheticals," says Rubin. "It depends on each individual voter."

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