The Board of Elections is an easy target.

After officials illegally purged thousands of voters from its active voter roll almost two years ago, they have drawn even more scrutiny — most recently from Mayor Bill de Blasio.

"The Board has no coherent vision for how to make voting an easy and positive experience," de Blasio said in his State of the City speech last week.

In that speech, the mayor called out the Board of Elections, saying it was not doing enough to promote Democracy.

He attacked the board for not accepting reforms he proposed in exchange for $20 million in city funds, an idea that was proposed two years ago.

"Our voting system in this city is about as customer-unfriendly as it can be," said the mayor.

"We take exception to that," said Michael Ryan, the executive director of the Board of Elections. "We have, we work within the channels of government."

On Tuesday, the head of the board responded to the mayor: "To the extent that someone other than the state legislature attempts to impose a mandate on the city board, and to the extent that's disagreed with by the commissioners, then under those circumstances we would act accordingly," Ryan said.

Essentially, the board is repeating a familiar argument: City Hall can't tell it what to do.

This occurs, NY1 has learned, as the board starts on a new purge of its rolls. The board is currently reviewing its records for deceased voters and for voters who have moved away — the first large-scale cleanup since the board illegally removed voters two years ago.

So far, it has already deleted 61,000 voters from the roll all over the five boroughs.

"Your tax money is being wasted for every voter that we have on the rolls that don't belong there — whether it's because they moved out of state, moved to another jurisdiction, or because they're deceased."

When NY1 told City Hall about the board's response, they sent us a statement saying New Yorkers deserve better but the BOE doesn't seem to care.

The board has thousands of more names to go through of people who are allegedly dead, so there is no clear timeline for when the voter purge will finish.