Posted on 04/19/2016 1:47:42 PM PDT by bobsunshine
It’s primary day in New York and as many voters scramble to cast their ballots before, during, and after work, some are also running into unfortunate circumstances.
It’s not often that New Yorkers’ votes are pivotal in a presidential primary and many at polling places across the state are determined to make their’s count....
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.
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...
WCBS 880’s Alex Silverman was also among those who had a less-than-ideal voting experience Tuesday morning.
In Hell’s Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan, everything was going smoothly for Silverman until he saw a piece of cardboard on top of the scanner and realized there was a problem. He was told “the electricians are on their way.”
When the machines aren’t working, you slide your ballot into a box underneath the scanner.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
When it is discovered polls were counting people who THOUGHT they were good to vote R then found out they weren’t and DT comes in ten points behind, that’s when the whining commences. Although no anecdotal evidence of being turned away at the polls that I’m hearing
“Because no one in Harlem has voted for a GOP candidate since the 1930’s....”
Reminds me of stopping at a Dunkin Donut in downtown Cambridge back in the 1980’s during a business trip. The guy next to us was reading a newspaper that sported the headline: “Boston Republicans in a Squabble”. I turned to my friend and remarked: “That’s really a shame. Those are two of the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet!”
Harlem is mostly black, so they don’ NEED no stinkin’ GOP ballots!
They’s suppose to do as they are TOLD, and be votin’ for the old white plantation mistress, and da’ Democrat Overseers be makin’ sure’s that dey do!!
No problem, vote for Crazy Bernie.
Trump for President.
Lol!
goes straight into a trash can shredder?.......................
But I'll bet they had far more Democrat ballots as they have registered voters.
Hot Sauce Rodham will end up with 150% of the vote there.
And yet they want to now and couldnt
“Incompetence”?? They know full well what they are doing. Just practicing for November.
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