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BronxVotes: Troubleshooter Keeps Polling Site Moving
Jeremy Ibarra |
There was a bottleneck, so she called the Board of Elections for more tablets. And guess what? They arrived.
Coverage of the 2016 general election by students of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and City Limits’ Fall 2016 investigative interns.
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.
You will be the hit of your return-watching party with these facts, even if your bean dip is a little too, well, beany.
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.
Even after several hours working at the polling station, volunteer Peggy Clark still had not voted – and said was still undecided. To her, both major party candidates had their negatives.