No Republican ballots available at two New York polling sites, voters sayBy Gabrielle Fonrouge, Jack Morphet and Sam Raskin
June 28, 2022
At least three Big Apple election sites told voters they didn’t have Republican ballots for New York’s primary race Tuesday, as thousands headed to the polls to cast their vote for governor, The Post has learned.
One voter, Ed Gavin, 62, arrived at his Bronx polling site in Spuyten Duyvil around 8:15 a.m. to cast his vote for GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino but after checking in with a poll worker, he was handed a Democratic ballot instead, he said.
“My party never came up, my political preferences were never discussed … I opened the sleeve and I saw the names of Tom Suozzi, Kathy Hochul and Jumaane Williams. These were all Democrats for governor,” Gavin, a retired Department of Correction deputy warden, told The Post.
“I flipped it over because I thought maybe the Republicans were on the back but there were no Republicans.”
Gavin was incredulous and went back to the poll worker to inform them he’d been given the wrong ballot.
“They told me ‘we don’t have any Republican ballots,’” Gavin recalled.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/28/no-republican-ballots-available-at-bronx-polling-site/
