Phillip Pantuso reports in the Times Union that the Republican commissioner for the Ulster County Board of Elections sent an email to thousands of Ulster County voters last week saying that their absentee ballot is on the way and that they should vote for his father. James Quigley is running for Ulster County Executive, and his son John is one of the Republican commissioner for the Ulster County Board of Elections. The son sent the email to 18,000 voters. That included 3,000 voters who the campaign found out legally are voting with absentee ballots. But the Quigley's clearly mixed up their email accounts and contact lists, and also sent the email to people who had subscribed to emails from Republican James Quigley’s campaign. Someone on the campaign staff, “uploaded the wrong file into the mailing program we’re using to communicate with voters,” Quigley told the Times Union on Oct. 11. “The email was inadvertently sent to the database for all the registered voters.” Sending the email from the account of a Republican commissioner for the Ulster County Board of Elections made the mistake worse. “People thought it was the commissioner telling them their ballot was on the way,” said Ashley Dittus, the Democratic commissioner for the county Board of Elections. “What was disappointing to me is that it came from a campaign email, not a board of elections email.” About 15 minutes after sending the first email, the campaign sent a correction email. But that second email went to some spam folders, several recipients said, perhaps filtered because it was the second email in quick succession from a political campaign. “Factually, there is no inaccurate information in that email,” James Quigley said. “The only problem is the wrong people got it.” And there will not, apparently, be any consequences for the mistake. Read the full story in the Times Union.