Mayor Bloomberg slammed the city Board of Elections over problems voters are encountering with the new electronic voting machines, such as poll workers turning up too late, breakdowns and long waits to cast the new ballots. He called it a “royal screw-up” and “completely unacceptable,” reports the NY Daily News:
Mayor Bloomberg Calls NYC Primary Voting Woes “A Royal Screw-Up” By Elections Board »
Mayor Bloomberg slammed the city Board of Elections over problems voters are encountering with the new electronic voting machines, such as poll workers turning up too late, breakdowns and long waits to cast the new ballots. He called it a “royal screw-up” and “completely unacceptable,” reports our Frank Lombardi.
“Today, unfortunately, we are hearing disturbing reports,” he said at the tail end of a swearing-in ceremony outside City Hall of 150 new volunteers for the NYC Civic Corps.
“It means some voters waited for hours, and other voters may not have a chance to cast their ballots at all,“ Hizzoner continued after blaming the 10-member partisan board for the “royal screw-up.”
“We’ve also gotten reports of broken and missing scanners, emergency ballots and poor customer service. Other counties have also experienced problems, but I’m not sure any of them have been has severe as we’ve seen in our five boroughs,” he said.
Bloomberg noted the city had provided the board with more than $77 million over the past five years to make the transition to new machines, and that didn’t include the $85 million in federal funds to buy the devices.
“There is a total absence of accountability for how the board performs on Election Day because the board is a remnant of the days when Tammany Hall ran New York. New Yorkers deserve better than this, and the time has come to fix it,” he concluded.
The mayor didn’t take questions after his salvo at the board, which he has often attacked in the past.
The Board has just as often complained that it’s been hampered by the city holding up funds until after elections have been held, hurting its ability to adequately plan and prepare for elections.
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(Source: NY Daily News)
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There was nothing wrong with the old mechanical lever voting machines. Why were they replaced?
If you knew the history of the original proposal, you would see that political and financial payoff was behind the idea, plus the great opportunity to (electronically) abuse these machines (and thus, the voters). Suffice it to say that the supplier company is run by a man with an unsavory past. “You could look it up”.
You will find election results severely tampered with, even without Acorn in the act.
If voting wa really important, the government would not let us do it.