Gov: Easy way to fix ballot goof

Gov. Cuomo is recommending the city Board Of Elections forgo resending ballots to more than 99,000 Brooklynites who got flawed ballot paperwork in the mail.

Since the paperwork muckup occurred only on return envelopes, Team Cuomo contends only the envelopes should be resent, not the actual ballots, which did not contain errors.

His administration’s recommendation comes after the Board of Elections ordered Phoenix Graphics, the company responsible for printing the ballots and envelopes, to resend the entire package to Brooklyn voters affected by the mistake.

“We don’t control the Board of Elections, but our recommendation was that sending corrected envelopes will ensure that any person that got an erroneous envelope can still vote,” said Cuomo (inset) spokesman Rich Azzopardi. “There is nothing wrong with the actual ballots and sending 100,000 duplicate ballots seems to be an overcorrection.”

That rationale was quick to draw criticism, though.

Brooklyn state Sen. Zellnor Myrie told the Daily News it would only continue to erode confidence in mailin voting.

“This is straight-up disenfranchisement and an affront to our democracy,” he tweeted Tuesday. “The vendor screwed up and is trying to fix it. Let them!”

One Albany insider said Cuomo’s logic behind the move was he does not want to give President Trump any fodder for his claims that mail-in voting is plagued by fraud, claims that have been repeatedly disproven.

During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Trump raised the ballot snafu in New York, though instead of pointing to Brooklyn where it occurred, he singled out Manhattan.