A New York election-integrity activist is calling for a federal investigation after claiming her organization’s review of voting records uncovered irregularities that, she argues, raise questions about the administration of New York City’s 2025 mayoral election.
Marly Hornik, founder of RealAmerica.Vote and NY Citizens Audit, said her group’s analysis identified what she believes are significant discrepancies in voter records. She emphasized, however, that she is not claiming to have proven that Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not win the election.
“I actually don’t know whether Mamdani won the mayoral race, and I’m not here to say that he didn’t,” Hornik said during a July 22 appearance on WABC Radio’s Sid & Friends in the Morning.
“The problem we uncovered is that the New York City and the New York State Boards of Elections have no idea if Mamdani won the mayoral election either. And that’s where the rubber meets the road here.”
According to Hornik, her organization reviewed approximately one million of the roughly 2.2 million ballots cast in the election.
I’ve been trying and trying to tell you this. Over 100,000 blank votes that should have been discarded, were counted. When I showed this live on my podcast on the Board of Elections website, the site went down for 45 minutes. So much more fraud than this. @pepesgrandma https://t.co/qvDUbJqG1t
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She alleged that the review found several categories of potential irregularities, including voter records she said could not be verified, records she claimed contained invalid Social Security numbers, and voters she alleged did not reside within New York City.
Based on those findings, Hornik said her organization estimated approximately 230,000 votes that it believes warrant further investigation. She noted that the figure exceeds Mamdani’s reported margin of victory over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent candidate.
“So out of 2.2 million voters, we studied about a million of them, and we found more votes that are apparently illegal than his margin of victory,” Hornik told host Sid Rosenberg.
She reiterated that her focus is on election administration rather than declaring the election outcome invalid.
“Again, the issue is not whether or not Mamdani won. The issue is whether or not the boards of elections in New York are actually counting fair elections so that we are properly represented as we are constitutionally granted.”
During a separate July 19 interview on WABC, Hornik argued that the issues her organization identified could warrant further scrutiny of election officials.
“These statistics that we discovered… they implicate both the New York City and the New York State boards of elections in potential very serious misconduct,” she said.
Hornik claimed that some voter records provided by election officials could not be independently verified.
“We were unable to verify any of their critical information as provided by the boards of elections—their name, their date of birth, their voting address,” she said. “They don’t exist. They’re fake people.”
Those allegations have not been substantiated by election authorities or by a court, and the article does not include responses from the New York City or New York State Boards of Elections regarding Hornik’s claims.
Hornik said her organization has forwarded its findings to federal authorities for review.
“This is in the hands of federal investigators and prosecutors right now, because again, when our right to choose representatives is diluted or harmed, injured in any way, that is a serious crime in America,” she said.
The claims have also drawn attention from author and journalist Naomi Wolf, who has written extensively in recent years about election-related issues. Hornik noted that Wolf has highlighted her organization’s work on social media.
Hornik also referenced an earlier allegation involving what Wolf described as more than 100,000 blank ballots that she believed had been improperly included in data published by the New York City Board of Elections. That allegation likewise remains disputed and, based on the information provided here, has not been confirmed by election officials or judicial findings.
