John Ravitz
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John Ravitz
John Ravitz is a former member of the New York State Assembly. A liberal Republican, he represented a district in Manhattan from 1991 to 2002. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the New York State Senate in a special election on February 13, 2002. After leaving office, Ravitz served as the executive director of the New York Board of Elections until 2007. Ravitz is currently the CEO of the American Red Cross in Westchester County...
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We're the keeper of the records. All we do is the inputting, unless somebody specifically brings it to our attention.
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We have to keep counting the absentee ballots, because under the law those ballots that we receive a week after the election we have to count as well. So if it is close, we are not going to rush to judgment. We are going to do the responsible thing and make sure we give all of the candidates and the voters of the city of New York real numbers, not numbers that are unofficial.