Posted on 04/20/2016 6:40:23 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The New York City Comptroller said hundreds of thousands may be dealing with polling problems on New York’s primary day.
CBS2’s Steve Langford reported Scott Stringer is going to audit the Board of Election due to the numerous polling problems across the city.
“Why is it alleged that 125,000 people have been removed from the voter rolls? Why did 60,000 people receive notices to vote that didn’t have the primary date? Why were people told they were in the wrong polling place time and time again?” Stringer said. “The next president of the United States could very easily be decided tonight and yet the incompetence of the Board of Election puts a cloud over these results.”
Many of the voting problems occurred early in the morning, 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reported.
At one polling site at Carlton Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, the site coordinator didn’t even bother to show up and it took about an hour-and-a-half to find a replacement so the poll could open.
Television and radio contributor John Burnett took to Twitter to voice his complaints, saying that in Harlem he was told there were no GOP ballots available.
He said he was told he’d have to wait for delivery.
Other voters said they were plagued by registry issues. One woman said if your last name was at the end of the alphabet at her polling site in Windsor Terrace, you had to vote affidavit.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement he is supporting the comptroller’s audit.
“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 voting lists. I am calling on the Board of Election to reverse that purge and update the lists again using Central, not Brooklyn borough, Board of Election staff,” de Blasio said.
De Blasio added that these errors show that “major reforms will be needed to the Board of Election and in the state law governing it.”
The office for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said it received 562 phone calls and 140 emails with complaints between the hours of 6 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. The attorney general said it is the largest volume of complaints they have received for a general election since taking office in 2011. The office said they only received 150 complaints in the 2012 general election.
Mission accomplished.
Election over.
Damage done.
Now they will study it an apologize, maybe.
Great, that will make it all better.
My bet is all those eliminated voters will magically reappear by the November election.
No doubt, all the removed people are alive. Those that are dead are still home free.
They were the independents that thought is was smart to be like that and like burnie. But, too stupid to realize that this is a closed primary and they can vote for him because he is running as a dem.
Isn’t it great when government runs things?
Just wait until they run every aspect of our lives!
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