Levy, the village’s mayor since 2011, used a red marker to cross out several names in the book, and wrote notes on the pages, said Donna Nogid, the board’s chief clerk.\u00a0Levy told Newsday last week he was a certified poll watcher and he\u00a0merely highlighted\u00a0the names of deceased village residents.<\/p>\n
Levy also said he instructed poll workers to ask certain voters, whom he suspected did not live in the village, to provide identification.<\/p>\n
Nogid said it is illegal in New York State for poll workers to ask voters for identification.<\/p>\n
The attorney general’s office has not received any formal complaints, the spokesperson said, but it is “informally” reviewing allegations made publicly about the election.<\/p>\n
Levy said in an interview on Tuesday the\u00a0 attorney general’s office was “welcome” to look into the election.<\/p>\n
“I don’t have a problem with that,” he said. “We didn’t hide anything, and we didn’t do anything that’s a problem.”<\/p>\n
Kambiz Akhavan, running on the Friendly Neighbors line, defeated\u00a0Robert Kraus, a trustee running on the Together for a Better Saddle Rock line, 417-170, to succeed Levy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kraus, who will remain on the board as a trustee,\u00a0said in an interview Levy’s “marking of the poll book raises basic questions about the fairness of the process.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It should be investigated,” Kraus said. “Is that the way we want to conduct elections in this country? We have to find out what happened and why.”<\/p>\n
The elections board invalidated petitions for Levy<\/a> and his slate in February because witnesses failed to sign six of eight pages. The witnesses who did not sign<\/a> on the designated line included Levy and another trustee, Afshin Tavakoly.<\/p>\n Levy’s slate\u00a0included\u00a0incumbent trustees Hal Chadow, Alex Kishinevsky and Afshin Tavakoly, as well as village justice Julia Gavriel.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chadow ran a write-in campaign and was reelected.<\/p>\n Joshua Needelman covers the Town of North Hempstead for Newsday. A Long Island native and University of Maryland graduate, his work has appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state attorney general’s office is looking into the recent Saddle Rock village election, an agency spokesperson\u00a0confirmed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,610,8015,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-174692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-local","tag-nassau","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Joshua](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774450394_870_image.jpeg\"\/)
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