Re: Democrat sex criminal Thomas Yager.

MINDEN — Voters on Tuesday re-elected convicted and imprisoned sex 
criminal Thomas Yager to the Town Board. He resigned from that 
office in July after he was charged with sexually abusing a child on 
a Fort Plain bus while working as an aide. Still, his name appeared 
on the ballot.

What happens next is “complicated,” according to John Conklin, 
director of public information for the state’s Board of Elections.

“Conviction is not necessarily a bar to (the) office unless the 
individual is in office when convicted,” Conklin said. “It’s really 
the fact that he can’t meet the qualifications for the office.”

Over the summer, the town tried to figure out whether or not Yager 
could be removed from the ballot when Supervisor Cheryl Reese 
reportedly reached out to the Montgomery County Board of Elections, 
said Democratic Commissioner Terry Bieniek.

But the state notified county officials in late August that they 
could not remove Yager’s name from the ballot while felony charges 
of first-degree sexual abuse were still unresolved in both 
Montgomery and Fulton Counties.