Bronx
Republicans in the Bronx Admire Trump’s Strength
Milana Vinn and Kellie Ell |
GOP voters in the borough face a steep registration disadvantage. But the ones we met on Election Day made up for it with enthusiasm for Donald Trump.
GOP voters in the borough face a steep registration disadvantage. But the ones we met on Election Day made up for it with enthusiasm for Donald Trump.
City Limits’ Bronx Investigative Internship team was out at the polling sites today, asking people not who got their vote, but what helped them decide.
At a polling site on the Manhattan College campus, Clinton supporter Satinath Choudhary snapped pictures of voters entering the polling center, sending them to friends he was trying to coax into voting.
‘What’s at stake is the future of our children,’ Michelle Ortiz said. ‘We got young girls growing up, we don’t want to set ourselves back to the 1930s.’
Other Bronx voters said they were moved primarily by their repulsion at the Republican nominee.
There was a bottleneck, so she called the Board of Elections for more tablets. And guess what? They arrived.
They said they couldn’t choose between either major party candidate.
Divisive candidates and depressing rhetoric aside, some Bronxites celebrated their chance to have a say.
The line of voters snaked out the school entrance and down the alley. But, this morning at least, staff on hand said they had it under control.
Ballot scanners were reportedly not working at a number of voting locations in the Bronx on Tuesday morning, including polling stations in Co-op City, Claremont, Kingsbridge and Belmont.