Electoral tactics used to play a spoiler role in the Huntington Town supervisor's race were also employed in Southampton contests this year, local Democratic officials say.

In an October letter, leaders of the Southampton Town Democratic Committee and Suffolk's Working Families Party warned of possible subterfuge. In urging voters to pick Democrat Tom Neely for town council, the officials said two individuals running on the Working Families Party line were "paper candidates," there to pull votes away from the Democrat and spoil Neely's chances.

One of the council candidates, according to state business records, has a connection to an elected official. Ieshia Galicia is CEO of a cannabis farm in upstate Medusa on property owned by Charles McArdle, the town's highway superintendent and a

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