New York School Clerk Tore Up, Trashed Ballots to Help Preferred Candidate

Other candidates, by comparison, each received fewer than 100 absentee and early mail votes combined.

Three days after the election, the district placed Keys on administrative leave.

Later that day, Superintendent Gary Rush entered her office and, according to the petition, discovered a large cafeteria-style trash can containing a tied garbage bag that investigators considered unusual and potentially relevant to the inquiry, The Post noted.

According to the district’s petition, Superintendent Gary Rush discovered what investigators identified as official 2026 election ballots inside the garbage bag.

The filing states that Rush immediately secured the clerk’s office and ordered the locks to be changed.