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"IN BROOKLYN they instructed ignorant poll workers to LOOK AT every ballot - ILLEGAL!!! To instruct anyone who didn't vote down ONE party line that their ballots were incorrect - ALSO ILLEGAL."
11/19/12, "New York City Board of Elections: Unlucky or Incompetent?" CityandStateNY.com, Nick Powell
"In the aftermath of another Election Day riddled with problems, yet
again a chorus of catcalls deriding the New York City Board of Elections
is ringing through the five boroughs....
What ended up ensuing on Election Day verged on chaos....Reports circulated throughout the day of polling sites with broken
voting scanners or no scanners at all, and instances of poorly trained
election workers rejecting valid affidavit ballots from voters. Other
poll workers were visibly overtaxed, with many running around trying to
organize lines at polling stations, or soliciting information from
voters before they entered the voting room in an attempt to speed the
process....
Some even held Gov. Cuomo accountable for
waiting until the eve of the election before signing an executive order
allowing displaced New Yorkers to cast affidavit ballots at any polling
location in the city, a decision that swelled polling sites with voters and was likely a factor in the ensuing confusion.
But even election districts that were not affected by Sandy had
similar issues...
“The Board of Elections worked really hard to do what they could,”
City Councilwoman Gale Brewer said. “But in my district we had the same
issues and not one iota of a hurricane problem, so [the difficulties]
are systemic.”"...
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Among comments to 2012 NYC voting:
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CM Colon •
"INCOMPETENT.
I can at least attest to the Brooklyn offices on Adams Street. I was a
poll worker for three years and from day one it was a sham. You had to
"know people" who knew people to get the district leaders (unpaid and
all about fulfilling favors) to put you on the list of people they knew
would be in favor of their agendas. THEN you went down for training
where answers are yelled out, put on pieces of paper and thrown around
as if we were in some detention room after school. The day of it was the
sheep leading the sheep as the poll coordinators are so ENTRENCHED they
wouldn't understand what propositions were.
IN BROOKLYN they instructed
ignorant poll workers to LOOK AT every ballot - ILLEGAL!!!
To instruct
anyone who didn't vote down ONE party line that their ballots were
incorrect - ALSO ILLEGAL.
Complaints were made but feedback and call
backs were not given. Disgusting. Travesty. Whole system needs an
overhaul but more than that, the office needs to get rid of EVERY ONE
and people with real skills need to be hired."
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rothsteg
"Why
is this even a question? The Board of Elections has proven its
incompetence over decades. This year's election was made worse by Sandy
and, by the fact that this was the first Presidential election with the
new machines which the workers clearly were not prepared to handle with a
full allotment of voters present. The former was out of the Board's
control; the latter was totally within its control."
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