Patricia R. Doxsey in the Daily Freeman asks Republican Ulster County Elections Commissioner Thomas Turco, and was told, it is not true that Democratic Elections Commissioner Ashley Dittus voted twice in the November election. Turco said that under "standard operating procedure" Dittus, like all other employees of the Board of Elections, submitted a special ballot akin to an absentee ballot. That's in case election officials are too busy to vote. Dittus was not, so she voted at a poll site. "We all do it at the board," Turco said. "Since we don’t know where we will be that day, we always cover ourselves.... The absentee wasn’t counted," he said, citing election law section 11-302. Dittus called it, a "petty attack and an easily disproved one at that." Read more about this story in the Daily Freeman.