Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries in NY by wide margins.
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While more than 100,000 voters were taken off the rolls, he told the New York Times that 63,000 were added and that the decline did not “shock his conscience”.
A Twitter user named LammyGwanBadSuh reported that at her polling place ‘Machines are not up and there are no paper ballots, ‘ the Post reported.
In a statement out Wednesday, Schneiderman said, “I am deeply troubled by the volume and consistency of voting irregularities, both in public reports and direct complaints to my office’s voter hotline”.
“From long lines and dramatic understaffing to longtime voters being forced to cast affidavit ballots and thousands of registered New Yorkers being dropped from the rolls, what’s happening today is a disgrace”, he said.
The most egregious roadblock to a fair voter turnout was in Brooklyn, where 120,000 eligible Democratic voters had been dropped from the rolls without explanation. New voters had up until last month to register. Eleven other states have open primaries in which members of either party can vote freely for any candidate regardless of party affiliation.
As New York voters headed to the polls Tuesday, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say they have been energized by the primary battles within their parties. Schneiderman said the investigation could spread beyond New York City. The mistake will potentially cost tens of thousands of voters the ability to vote in New York City tonight, however Mayor Bill De Blasio has confirmed that he supports the Comptroller’s proposal and intends to get to the bottom of the voter registration irregularities that have plagued the city’s primary election.
On primary day, the polls will be open from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m., with district one voting in the high school gym, and districts two and three voting in the Saxe Middle School auxiliary gym.
“We tracked down dozens of voters who say they were disenfranchised and as it turns out they weren’t registered in the party they were trying to vote for”, Ryan said.
“I’ll probably vote when the time comes, I think everyone that can should”, Catanzaro said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.), who is expected to lose the state Tuesday, argued that the rule has blocked a large chunk of his independent supporters from backing him. It’s not clear why NY has had so many difficulties, but even before polls closed officials were promising to get to the bottom of this dysfunction.
Anyone wishing to cast a vote must be a registered voter in Bryan County and must present some form of photo identification.
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State law requires local election boards to periodically clean up their rolls by determining which voters are still active, which is largely based on whether they voted in one of the past two presidential elections.
