Missing Ballots, No-Show Poll Workers: Lawmakers Get An Earful At Election Reform Hearing
New York lawmakers flipped the script at a hearing on election reform and voting rights on Wednesday, shining the light on voters and Election Day workers, to be followed by an interrogation of elections officials in September. The message at the first of a series of State Senate hearings was clear: Board of Elections officials are going to have a lot to answer for.
Members of the Elections Committee heard from more than two dozen people who shared stories of absent poll workers, confusing information from Board of Elections staff, and a sense that voters generally have lost confidence in the current system after a cascade of errors year after year.
State Senator Zellnor Myrie, committee chair, said there were too many examples of localities across the state failing to provide voters with a fully functioning democracy, citing voter purges, scanner breakdowns, missent absentee ballots, long lines at poll sites, lack of language interpreters, and most recently, incorrect preliminary primary results in the New York City mayor’s race.
The journey from “worst to first,” he said, may require changes to the structure of the Boards of Elections, and to the state laws that govern how elections are conducted.
https://gothamist.com/news/missing-ballots-no-show-poll-workers-lawmakers-get-earful-election-reform-hearingI applied to serve as a poll worker and was never contacted.
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