Councilman Ben Kallos — who chairs the Council's government operations committee, and who last year introduced legislation to establish a voter information portal that would allow for absentee ballot tracking — told POLITICO New York last week he hopes to hold a June hearing examining the problems.

At last month's preliminary budget hearing, Kallos had commended BOE executive director Michael Ryan for working with the Council to address the issues raised in a 2013 report by the Department of Investigation that was broadly critical of the board.

The Daily News suggested over the weekend that the reported voter-roll purge may have been an "overreaction" to that report's findings.

And an analysis by CUNY's Center for Urban Research of changes to voter lists, in Brooklyn and citywide, suggests that Brooklyn lost 140,000 voters from 2015 to 2016 — around 60 percent of the city's net voter loss.