Poll sites in New York City opened at 6 a.m. Thursday, where residents were already lining up to cast ballots in an historic presidential election amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Advocacy groups are dispensing information, answering questions and offering rides to help unhoused New Yorkers exercise their rights.
Large numbers of people have come out to vote early in the city’s mainland borough. But will the large distances between early-voting sites keep some voters away?
Long lines over the weekend did not stop thousands from coming out this week to vote, El Diario reports.
At least it was on Tuesday afternoon, when there were long lines moving fast at several polling sites, and virtually no waiting times at others.
‘During the three months we set up shop in Harlem every Saturday, we encountered scores of people who thought that because they had a felony conviction and/or they were on parole, they could not vote.’
‘Research has found that as many as 50 percent of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who are re-enfranchised mistakenly think that they remain ineligible to vote.’
The only thing worse than a serious illness is a bad diagnosis. And that is what President Trump has offered in his size-up of the U.S. voting system.
New York State’s voter registration deadline for the 2020 election is Friday, October 9.
There was—and continues to be—concern that delays by election boards and postal service failures could lead to mail-in ballots being omitted from the final tally of votes.
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