Embattled Board of Elections again frustrates NYC voters with primary day problemsBy Sam Raskin
June 28, 2022
The beleaguered city Board of Elections frustrated some of the relatively few New Yorkers who chose to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s primary contests — with one voter calling the often bumbling body an “absolute embarrassment.”
Along with at least two Republicans being given the wrong party’s ballots, several Democrats and members of the GOP who participated in the races at 1,200 locations across the five boroughs were not able to enter them at 6 a.m., when they were scheduled to open.
Spencer Mestel, a freelance writer, told The Post on Tuesday afternoon that an elderly woman who uses a walker was turned away in the wee hours because poll workers did not yet have a key to a Brooklyn balloting site.
“We showed up to the poll site in Brooklyn, we showed up at 5 a.m. … and there was no key,” he said. “The police officer on site didn’t have a key, the Board of Elections didn’t give [the site coordinator] a key, I watched her call the Board of Election multiple times … [but] no one helped us.”
Mestel, who has served as an election worker in the Big Apple since 2012, recalled that the building’s superintendent unlocked the door and let workers and voters in at 7:30 a.m. — more than two hours after election workers first arrive and 90 minutes after voters were slated to be able to begin casting their ballots.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/28/embattled-board-of-elections-again-frustrates-nyc-voters-with-primary-day-problems/
