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NYC Mayor’s Race: Eric Adams brushes off report that his campaign filed fraudulent signatures to get ballot line

By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on August 1, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams brushed off on Friday a report that his mayoral reelection campaign submitted dozens of forged or fraudulent signatures to secure his place as an independent candidate on the November general election ballot.

Following an unrelated Aug. 1 event in Brooklyn, Hizzoner insisted to reporters that it is completely normal for campaigns to submit some fraudulent signatures gathered by volunteers or hired canvassers on the street. He made the statements in response to a Gothamist report that found at least 52 of the nearly 50,000 signatures his campaign submitted to get on the ballot were forged or fraudulent.

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