This will be one bloody ballot.
Thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, notorious cop-killer Herman Bell will get to vote in Thursday’s Democratic primary.
Bell, a registered Democrat, will, among other races, be able to vote for Cuomo or Cynthia Nixon for governor — a privilege that has the widow of one of his victims fuming.
“My husband was assassinated! Cuomo gave him the right to vote. He gave three-time cop-killer Herman Bell the right to vote,” Diane Piagentini told The Post.
The widow of Officer Joseph Piagentini — who was assassinated by Bell point-blank in a 1971 ambush in Harlem along with Officer Waverly Jones — slammed Cuomo for allowing the former Black Liberation Army and Black Panthers member the right to vote.
Her husband pleaded for his life before Bell murdered him.
Bell also pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the BLA-orchestrated death of a third cop, Sgt. John Young, in San Francisco.
In May, Cuomo issued an executive order providing 24,000 convicts on parole the right to vote. Bell, in prison for more than 40 years, was granted parole and released from prison just weeks before Cuomo’s action.
Board of Elections records show Bell registered to vote by mail on July 19, from his Bedford-Stuyvesant address, as a Democrat. His voter registration took effect July 23.
Piagentini said she could not forgive Cuomo.
“I believe Herman Bell should have never been given the right to vote by executive order. In this case with what he has done, I will not vote for Cuomo,” Piagentini said.
“I will vote for [GOP candidate] Marc Molinaro. My family will not vote for Cuomo, my friends will not. Gov. Cuomo … has no regard for the people of New York and is desperate for votes,” she fumed.
Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, said allowing Bell to vote is outrageous.
“Herman Bell murdered two brave NYPD officers in cold blood. How can Andrew Cuomo look their families in the eye? And now he’s illegally sending convicted child molesters into schools for the primary. Are a handful of extra votes really worth that, Andrew? Think about it,” the GOP candidate said.
Cuomo’s office defended the governor’s actions.
“As we’ve previously said, we disagree in the strongest possible terms with the parole board’s decision [to release Bell],” said Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi.
“The executive order covers all people on post-release supervision and puts New York on par with 18 other states, red and blue alike, and the District of Columbia that restore voting rights to citizens no longer in prison.”
An older man answering the door at the Bell residence declined comment when a Post reporter asked who the parolee would be voting for.
Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan