It’s been a steady stream of voters all day at Hutch Tech.
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NY primary voters will be able to report problems at the polls through a special hotline.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer said he would audit the operations and management of the city’s Board of Elections.
“With four elections in New York City in 2016 alone, we don’t have a moment to spare”.
The Board of Elections moved several longtime voting sites in the neighborhood, but many voters were unaware of the change, they said.
“I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do”, said Frangakis.
Large majorities of New Yorkers – Democrats and Republicans alike – are concerned about the direction of the US economy.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams did not share this outlook as of Tuesday evening.
“Polling site not open yet”, voter Rebecca Keith tweeted. There, tens of thousands of voters were inexplicably purged from registration lists, officials said. “Our City has a duty to ensure the BOE is properly funded, staffed, trained, and equipped to run 21st century elections”.
There is no Election Day registration for the Presidential Primary. Either that, or opening on time, but with none of the voting protocol in place.
But Bradley said he wasn’t happy with the choices on the ballot. “They were not setup and polling the machines were locked”. And many voters from both parties say they’re concerned about the economy and Wall Street.
“It’s discouraging, because this is what makes people wanna just leave”, she said. “It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists”, de Blasio said.
Question: I am registered with Non-partisan/No Party Preference, what do I have to do to vote in the June 7 Presidential Primary for one of these three political parties – Republican, Green, or Peace & Freedom?
“With the world the way it is now, we need someone who’s ready on day one”, said Clinton supporter Theresa Bennett of Plattsburgh. An additional 70,000 were already inactive and, having failed to vote in two successive federal elections or respond to cancel notices, were removed. This will wreak havoc on Tuesday when these voters find out that they can not vote in the primary election for which they thought they had successfully registered.
The polls in New York State close at 9 p.m.
Showing up to cast their ballot and being told they are not registered to vote was the most common complaint, Schneiderman’s office said.
Two-thirds of New York Democrats say Clinton is the candidate better suited to beat Trump in a general election.
Campaigners for the Democratic underdog weren’t taking any chances, though.
Voters must be be registered as either Democrat or a Republican to vote next Tuesday. “Why were people told they were in the wrong polling place time and time again?”
An organizer for the local Sanders’ campaign, Kevin Sweeney, says their campaign, and that of Hillary Clinton, have had attorneys standing by to help voters who think they were improperly denied the right the vote.
People line up to check into their voting station at Public School 22 in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
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“We have closed primaries”, Ulster County Democratic Elections Commissioner Vic Work said Friday.
