It’s New York City’s first relevant primary in decades, and the polls are a mess

It would be bad enough if just the members of Team Cruz were trying to muck up the entire election process. 

 

As is shown below, democrats also run polling places and are just as happy to keep people from voting so that their dream of a brokered convention will come true.

My question, a serious one:  Where are the Republican’s at these polling precincts cracking heads for this disenfranchisement, now coming from both sides of the aisle?

The New York Post

By Sophia Rosenbaum

April 19, 2016

 

UPDATE: New York City Comptroller To Audit Board Of Election Due To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Polling Problems (Source)

 

New York voters battled closed polling stations and broken machines Tuesday morning during the city’s first relevant primary in decades.

At PS 73 in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, residents waiting for the polls to open at 6 a.m. were furious that workers couldn’t access keys to the facility.

“You can’t vote nor cast any type of ballot.

They (the keys to the building) are in a locked box and no one has the key,” Torsha Childs wrote on Facebook. “You can’t even get inside the building, you are being turned away at the door way. WOW !!!”

A Board of Elections employee was supposedly on the way, she added.

Voters made the same complaint about shuttered polls at another Brooklyn site, 501 Carlton Ave. not far from the Barclays Center.

One woman claimed she waited more than three hours to vote at a Brownsville polling station at PS 332.

“I have been here since 550 am.. Still cannot vote. Machines are not up and there are no paper ballots,” @LammyGwanBadSuh tweeted.

Another woman fumed on social media after a faulty scanner eliminated her vote.

“Am mad as hell for my vote not being counted b/c scanner would not accept ballot Brooklyn District 30 #NYPrimary #fixit #educatevolunteers,” @heidiko44 tweeted.

When Jonathan Petersen went to vote at Sunset Park’s Marien-Heim senior center polling station on 4th Avenue, he was shocked to see his deceased mother’s name above his.

“All of a sudden, she’s on the voter rolls at my address, where she has never lived,” the shocked 63-year-old said. “I pointed it out to the woman and she wrote deceased next to her name. They didn’t even ask me to prove that she was dead.”

Petersen said his mom, Helen, passed away in 2010 and hadn’t voted in more than a decade.

He did change her address to his following her death to get any mail she might receive, but said he didn’t think that would automatically register her to vote there.

“Is it possible that someone has been voting using her name for a few years?” he wondered.

 

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