The re-election campaign for New York City Mayor Eric Adams submitted fraudulent and fake signatures on the legal petition for him to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate according to a report from Gothamist released on Friday.

The news outlet conducted a review of the campaign’s petition and found multiple people who said their names were added without their permission or knowledge and at least three instances of signatures belonging to deceased individuals, for a total of 52 signatures that were forged or otherwise fraudulently obtained with thousands yet to be verified. 

The review found that many pages of the petition had signatures written in very similar handwriting and that in at least one case, a single campaign worker had collected over 700 signatures on one day.

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