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April 29, 2016

Voting Fiasco and Voting in Bay Ridge

purge the vote

 

When I heard that there was voting problems around the last election, I realized we needed to have Lee’s info looked up. Lee is registered as an independent and didn’t get to vote in this election. In the election prior to this one (the one where Dan Donovan/Vinnie Gentile and Pam Harris/Lucretia ran in our area), Lee had to vote by proxy because the polling site workers said he was not registered here.  At the time, we just thought it was a paperwork mistake between the DMV and the voter registration office. The following day, we printed a voting form online and sent it in to have the address changed.  

 

The day after THIS election (4/20), I checked the voter registration online for Lee after I heard that there was problems with other people’s registration in Brooklyn. Another street is listed on the address for Lee’s registration. The street is nearby, but it puts Lee at a different poll site (Why weren’t the workers at our polling site able to look this up?)   Even after we sent in form over a year ago, an incorrect address remains in the system?!   SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT HERE.  I don’t know who handles the registration for Independents at the Board of Elections (if you know, can you leave it in the comments below). We wrote to the Board of Elections and received an e-mail that it would take a few WEEKS for them to update it. 

 

WEEKS?  Hello Board of Elections it’s 2016, tap tap on your computer and fix the mistake.  Will Lee be able to vote in the presidential election in November?

 

The following day,  April 21st, Lee received an e-mail from the Board of Elections which just said “Good Morning Leon” – nothing else.  

 

board of elections email

Why hasn’t any elected official in our area come out and called for the people working in the Board of Elections to step down? I don’t care if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you are a politician you should have spoken out against voters being removed.  The only elected official who has complained is DeBlasio,  This isn’t a situation with one person pulling a few voter registrations, this is a situation where the Board of Elections office is not being run correctly and they need to clean house. Suspending one person is not enough.  Newspapers are reporting that these jobs are given out to friends of pols – let’s change that process.  Every politician in Brooklyn should be complaining because elections are being skewed in certain directions. At the very least Deblasio should transfer ALL of these people to other offices so they can’t play with Brooklyn voters registrations. If voting is the only thing we have, then it needs to be done by people who actually care about doing it correctly.  These workers  should offer to step down.

 

Hugs,
marlene

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