Dem intern’s double ‘vote’ trouble

A college intern working for a City Council candidate this summer got a lesson in hardball politics and may have run afoul of election law in the process.

Rebecca Chant (left top), who goes to school in Ohio, where she is registered to vote, also registered to vote in The Bronx in order to help her boss enter and win the Sept. 12 primary, documents and court records show.

The registration both allowed Chant to circulate petitions to get Democrat Marjorie Velazquez on the ballot and — at the campaign’s behest — to also file objections with the Board of Elections that ended up knocking two of Velazquez’s opponents out of the race.

That left Velazquez (left bottom) as one of four candidates and the only Hispanic left in a hotly contested race to fill the seat being vacated by termlimited Councilman James Vacca.

In order to legally register in New York, a voter must intend to remain at the address indefinitely, according to Marty Connor, a former state senator and election-law attorney. While Chant lived in The Bronx for the summer, her lease was up on Aug. 31 so she could return to Oberlin College, court papers show.

But election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder, who is representing Velazquez, told The Post Chant was legitimately registered.

“It’s perfectly appropriate to register from a place as long as you’re actually living there,” he said.

Chant did not return a request for comment.