Manhasset Man Voted Twice In 2016 Election: Officials

A Manhasset resident who serves as assistant superintendent for the Malverne School District was arrested in Florida on Friday for voting twice in the 2016 election, authorities say.

According to Florida officials, Spiro Colaitis, 58, voted in person in Nassau County and also by a mail-in ballot in Florida. Colaitis owned property in Pensacola, Florida, but had not lived there since 2005 and sold the property in 2010, according to Florida officials.

An investigator with the Florida State Attorney's office said that he emailed Colaitis a copy of his Florida ballot, which was cast on Oct. 25, 2016, to determine if the signature on it was his, but Colaitis never responded. Nassau County records showed that Colaitis then voted in-person on Long Island on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016.

Colaitis is the Assistant Superintendent for District Operations for the Malverne School District, and also served in the New York Naval Militia.

Colaitis was charged with casting more than one ballot in any election. He turned himself in at the Escambia County Sheriff's Office last week, and was later released on $2,500 bail. He's due back in court later this month.

Story by Alex Costello

Photo: Courtesy Florida State Attorney's Office