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YONKERS, Oct. 31 — Republicans are challenging the right of thousands of registered voters in the local State Senate district to cast ballots on Nov. 7, charging that these voters do not live at the addresses listed with the Westchester County Board of Elections. The dispute set off a war of words between the district’s longtime incumbent, State Senator Nicholas A. Spano, and his Democratic rival, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, whom Mr. Spano beat by just 18 votes in 2004, after a contentious recount that lasted three months. John Ciampoli, a Republican lawyer who handled the recount for Mr. Spano two years...

A Suffolk County grand jury subpoenaed election records for Saltaire on Fire Island yesterday after complaints that some summer residents had voted illegally by casting ballots there and in the communities where they live most of the year, county officials said. Prosecutors declined to comment. But critics of the village government have accused several people of dual voting, including Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Democratic vice presidential nominee, and her husband, John A. Zaccaro Sr. Voting records bear out those assertions. For decades Ms. Ferraro has voted regularly in her hometown, New York City, but since 2001, she and her...