Bronx
Facilitating Democracy … For $200 A Day
Kathleen Caulderwood |
For four years Paul Bales has worked the polls on election day. He says this year is proving especially challenging.
For four years Paul Bales has worked the polls on election day. He says this year is proving especially challenging.
Said one voter: “A lot of people are saying this isn’t normal.”
Poll workers ran ballots up and down the stairs between elderly voters and the scanners on an upper floor.
It’s the first presidential race for New York’s new optical scan voting machines. Do they get a checkmark or an error message from voters?
After area redistricting sent some voters to an alternate polling site in Norwood, poll workers said they had prepared to send some away
Pierre Mercredi is spending all day Tuesday volunteering to drive seniors and disabled people to polling stations across the Bronx.
The third party’s candidates don’t expect to win. But they were happy to “have our voice heard.”
Last-minute changes in polling sites left many voters in the Bronx confused about where to vote and in some cases, even prevented them from voting.
Bronx polling sites saw heavy turnout this morning.
Some voters received conflicting messages about who could use the special ballots. And some polling places ran out of the documents.