Park Slope Councilmember Bill DeBlasio is back on the ballot for the city’s Public Advocate seat after a technical glitch briefly disqualified him. In reinstating the politician and his 132 folders worth of petition signatures, which were mistakenly counted at 131, the president of the Board of Elections admitted, “It was our own process that negatively impacted the candidate.” |NYT|

Park Slope Councilmember Bill DeBlasio is off the ballot for the city’s public advocate race because his campaign miscounted his volumes of petition signatures, claiming there were 131 instead of 132. This technical glitch was enough to make the politician’s 125,000 signatures, 17 times more than necessary, worthless, at least until his lawyers resolve the typo. |Brooklyn Paper|