Johnson, 43, was charged with 10 counts of fraud in connection with casting votes, and two counts of absentee ballots and voting violations.
He entered the race only two weeks before the primary at the request of Democratic Party officials in the Bronx, who asked him to run as a replacement for a candidate who was thrown off the ballot for violations of residency requirements.
I met an old man who showed me his ballot (a violation of his privacy, but he needed help), and asked me, "Where's the ballot box?" He had cast his first vote, he told me, for F.D.R. Thanks to our luck in jumping the line when our district was called, the whole process took me ninety minutes.
The report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe offered a more measured assessment, reporting 13 cases of ballot-stuffing and violations like improperly sealed ballot boxes, group voting, multiple voting and voting by proxy It also documented complaints that business owners were afraid to donate money to opposition parties.
She also came under fire in 2017 after she destroyed year-old ballots in violation of law.
Harris, former pastor of a Baptist church, testified that Dowless had assured him that he wouldn't collect absentee ballots in violation of state law.
But observers did report ballot stuffing and other violations.
Monitoring conducted by organizations such as Open Russia, Golos and the Anti-Corruption Foundation documented a plethora of violations, including ballot-stuffing, bloated voter rolls, "voting" by dead people, coercion by employers, expulsion of election observers and multiple vote-casting ("carousel voting").
MOSCOW — Voters in Russia went to the polls on Sunday in regional elections amid complaints by the opposition of ballot-stuffing and other violations by the governing party, United Russia.
Andriy Shkil, a member of Parliament, said chapters of Ms. Tymoshenko's party around Ukraine were gathering information to demonstrate that ballot-rigging and other violations were carried out.
