April Keys. Credit: Village of HempsteadA New York clerk was caught in a blatant attempt to steal a local election last month, prompting the state to order a brand-new one.As The New York Post reported on Thursday, a Hempstead Union Free School District petition revealed that District Clerk April Keys tore up several ballots and helped smuggle them out of her office, which helped board president Victor Pratt ‘win’ his reelection campaign for the Hempstead Union Free School District on Long Island.The election took place on May 19.State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa ordered a new race to take place within 60 days, just hours after the petition surfaced.The district issued the following in a statement to The Post:The Board appreciates the Commissioner’s expeditious review of this matter, which enables the District to move forward with the revote in accordance with the Commissioner’s ruling.Per the Post, Keys took the ripped-up ballots and tossed them into the dumpster. She also gave Pratt, a local DJ who goes by DJ Vic-Lover, absentee ballots to dispose of.LOOK:Victor Pratt Credit: New York State Department of EducationCredit: New York State Department of EducationCredit: New York State Department of EducationTheir blatantly illegal actions bore significant fruit, though Keys was replaced on administrative leave.The ‘absentee vote’ and machine voting discrepancy help tell the story of a rigged election.From The Daily Mail:Pratt won the election by a narrow margin with just 81 more votes. However, he led in absentee ballots with 87 percent and only came in third on machine voting results, with 27 percent.Three days after the election, Keys was placed on administrative leave. The same day, District Superintendent Gary Rush found a garbage bag filled with stolen, ripped-up ballots, the petition.There’s also one more layer to the scheme, and it involves an unlikely culprit.According to the petition, a janitor discarded the bag while the locks on Keys’ door were being changed. He later led investigators to it, where it was standing in a foot of water.There were ballots inside the bag for both Pratt and his chief competitor, Gwendolyn Jackson.“Ms. Keys told him to use a different staircase because the security aide stationed at the bottom of the staircase by the administrative offices would ask questions and it ‘risked appearing suspicious,'” the petition notes.Here he is allegedly trying to get rid of the ballots:Credit: New York State Department of EducationThe post FRAUD ALERT: Female New York Clerk Gets Caught Ripping Up and Trashing Ballots To Help Her Favored Candidate “Win” – New Election Ordered (PHOTOS) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.