Thousands turned away at the NYC polls.

For this week’s blog my topic was on the issues faced by voters in New York within the past week. Many voters attempted to go to the polls this past Tuesday many were faced with issues of being removed from voter rolls, polling stations opening late, or not even opening at all. An outstanding 120,000 Brooklyn Democratic were taken of the list of active voters which accounts for seven percent of the borough electorate. These issues were felt to show a consistent failure by the Brooklyn board of elections and need for reform within its system to avoid future failures like this.

Due to these issues faced by the voters some turned to the law to try and work out the issues and retain their voter eligibility for the primary that was up and coming but due to a judge’s denial to take the issue at the preferred time, many lost the opportunity to cast their vote at Tuesday’s primary. Some of the other issues faced came due to the strictness of New York law, from voters not being eligible to vote in a different party due to the deadline being Oct. of the previous year 2015, to individuals receiving postcards that weren't fully informative of all the upcoming elections.

so in conclusion there're a lot of issues being faced by New York voters within that area, they have very limited leeway when it comes to the strictness of their laws, and the system that is supposed to be running things seems to be barely holding itself together. so like the mayor pointed out in this article at the moment they should let the central board of election staff control that list while they work on fixing the issues within their own system so that these issues or new ones don't occur in the future like possibly election time.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-20/after-thousands-turned-away-from-polls-nyc-demands-answers?int=a14709