Democratic Liaison for 57th Assembly District Renee Collymore is ensnared in a battle with longtime poll worker Linda Sunderland.
The situation over polling site preferences came to an explosive head in October right before the general election. Sunderland sent threatening and insulting emails as well as messages to Collymore, telling her that she was a “nigger old maid” and to “drop dead.”
Sunderland said that the spat really began when Collymore was made democratic liaison and therefore had the authority to assign poll worker positions this year. The two weren’t familiar with one another despite Sunderland’s decades of being a poll worker. Sunderland said that because she was “the only white person that went to the meetings” that she was being discriminated against by Collymore and couldn’t get placed at the East New York polling site for early voting. Working early voting days equals higher pay.
Sunderland brazenly questioned why there weren’t more white people working at the poll sites and assumed Collymore kept her from a job on purpose. She acknowledged sending the hostile email out of frustration and that it was a “little stupid” on her part. She denies anything she said was racist or harsh, and said she didn’t realize she had used the N-word in her email.
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