Three weeks away from Election Day, officials at the city's Board of Elections say they are ready to handle the surge at the polls. However, they are currently dealing with another controversy: disparaging comments made by one of its commissioners. Our Courtney Gross explains.

This Board of Elections commissioner has seen better days.

"These were not my views as a public official and to be honest with you they are not my views as a private person," said Commissioner Alan Schulkin.

Schulkin was caught on this undercover video last year by the conservative group Project Veritas. In the video, which was released last week, Schulkin talks about voter fraud in minority neighborhoods and argues the city's new municipal ID could lead to fraud.

"People don't realize there are certain neighborhoods in particular where they bus people around to vote," Schulkin said.

"I believe that there really needs to be much more clarification and serious consequences for being on record," said Susan Lerner with the good government group Common Cause New York.

In his most extensive comments to date, the embattled commissioner took to the mic at a city Board of Elections meeting Tuesday trying to explain what happened.

"I was trying to get this woman away from me and I was agreeing with her when I shouldn't have been," said Schulkin.

The explanation comes after the mayor called for his resignation.

"What he said was entirely inappropriate and unfair and absolutely the reverse of what someone should be saying on the Board of Elections," Mayor de Blasio said. "He should really step down."

"The Mayor does not control the Board of Elections and I have not intent to resign at this point in time," Schulkin said.

That was all he would say to us about the issue.

Of course this is not the first time the Board of Elections has been under fire. It happens to be a common occurrence.

Just six months ago, the board accidentally kicked off thousands of Brooklyn voters from the active voter roll. In the immediate aftermath, the board suspended two high-ranking officials in the borough. 

Since then, the board has not acted.

Those two individuals remain suspended and ultimately when the commissioners take final action on that we will be happy to report that out to the public.