The head of the board of elections is apologizing over last week's debacle at the polls. Our Michael Scotto has the story.

Voters lashed out at the Board of Elections one week after it was revealed that 125,000 Brooklyn residents were purged from the voting rolls.

The board routinely removes the names of inactive voters from its rolls, but the agency apparently missed a procedural step in the most recent purge before last week's presidential primary.

At the board's first meeting since the primary, commissioners affirmed the suspension of a top official in the Brooklyn office without pay, but decided, for now, to take no action against any other employees.

Executive Director Michael Ryan apologized for the massive foul-up.

"We take that public trust very, very, very seriously," said Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan. "We run a clean shop here." 

Ryan said his focus was on counting all the paper affidavit ballots — including 37,000 in Brooklyn — before the May 3 deadline to certify the election.

After that date, Ryan said, the board would consider Mayor Bill de Blasio's new proposal to give it $20 million in exchange for reforms.

"It is unequivocal that this board will not ignore the mayor's letter," Ryan said.

While this screw-up got national attention, this is not the first time the Board of Elections has messed up. 

In 2004, Mayor Bloomberg blasted the agency for making voters stand in line for hours.

He did the same in 2012 after massive confusion and uncounted ballots following hurricane Sandy.

This year, voters said there were problems across the city, including missing ballots, broken machines and poorly trained workers.

"We had three scanners," said Jay Wishner, a Manhattan Poll Worker. "All of them mysteriously, almost simultaneously broke down. That's the good news. The bad news was the reaction of the coordinator, who had what I can best describe as a meltdown."

The problems were so bad that the state attorney general and the city comptroller are also investigating the complaints.