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NWCorona's JournalN.Y. primaries: Complaint hotline volume 4 times higher than in 2012
"ALBANY - Hours before polls closed, a hotline for complaints related to New York's presidential primary elections had already received more calls than it did during the 2012 cycle, according to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office.
Schneiderman's hotline received 562 complaints from 6 a.m. to 3:50 p.m., according to spokesman Nick Benson. Another 140 complaints were sent by email, Benson said.
That's more than four times the roughly 150 complaints the attorney general's office received during the 2012 general election.
"This is by far the largest volume of complaints we have received for an election since Attorney General Schneiderman took office in 2011," Benson said in an email."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/04/19/latest-ny-primaries-clintons-cast-their-votes/83230426/
Frustrated Brooklyn Voters Beg Judges "Nonstop" To Let Them Vote
"I never had this problem in all my years of voting, and I'm a consistent voter."
It was the afternoon of Primary Day, and Thomas Williams* was in a carpeted back hallway of the Brooklyn Board of Elections Office holding a court order to show poll workers later in the evening, telling them he should be allowed to vote. Moments earlier, Williams had sat in a plastic chair in a stuffy, carpeted office, across a steel desk from Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Wavny Toussaint, surrounded by court and Elections personnel, explaining his situation. Sometime this year, the agency sent a piece of mail to Williams to confirm his Flatbush address, but left off his apartment number. When the postal service returned the notice as undeliverable, someone at the Board changed Williams's registration to inactive, meaning his name would not appear on the list at his poll site.
Toussaint considered these facts for about five minutes, then agreed that he should be allowed to vote. Williams returned to work, behind a desk on the same floor.
Williams is a seasonal Board of Elections worker himself, but not even his knowledge of the system could protect him from the irregularities that affected so many New York voters ahead of this year's primary, particularly in Kings County.
126,000 Brooklyn Democrats were removed from the active voter rolls since last November, 44,000, like Williams, rendered inactive, 70,000 more purged entirely, and 12,000 because voters were listed as having left the borough. In the back hallway and lobby of the city Elections Board's Downtown Brooklyn office, 15-20 would-be voters at a time waited 30 minutes to an hour and a half for their cases to be heard.
"It's nonstop. It might be worse than '08," one worker said to another during a down moment between hearings."
http://gothamist.com/2016/04/19/brooklyn_boe_court.php
Comptroller Will Audit New York City Board of Elections
"Comptroller Scott Stringer is launching an audit of the city’s Board of Elections after reports of problems voting in today’s primary elections and the purging of more than 100,000 voters from rolls in Brooklyn.
“There is nothing more sacred in our nation than the right to vote, yet election after election, reports come in of people who were inexplicably purged from the polls, told to vote at the wrong location or unable to get in to their polling site,” Mr. Stringer said in a statement this afternoon. “The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient.”
In a letter to BOE Executive Director Michael Ryan, Mr. Stringer ticked off a litany of problems constituents had reported at the polls today, including one voter who reported arriving at 6 a.m., when voting begins, to find their Williamsburg polling site wasn’t open and wouldn’t be open any time soon. Voters have also complained of being sent to different poll sites or being given conflicting information, Mr. Stringer’s office noted.
“Comptrollers audit agencies, that’s why comptrollers are there,” Mr. Ryan said in a telephone issue. “If Comptroller Stringer believes that it is a worthy use of his agency resources to investigate the Board of Elections, we’re no different than any other city agency.”
http://observer.com/2016/04/comptroller-will-audit-new-york-city-board-of-elections/
Latest from N.Y. primaries: Postcards cause polling location problems upstate
Here's a link for those wanting some new information on NY.
http://www.wltx.com/mb/news/nation-now/latest-from-ny-primaries-the-clintons-cast-their-votes/143061774
New York Primary Lawsuit Update: In Potential Win For Bernie Sanders Supporters, Judge Declares
"New York primary lawsuit may have found an opening for the state’s voters who believe their registration was wrongly changed, with a development on Tuesday seen as a boost to supporters of Bernie Sanders claiming the actions unfairly targeted them.
An effort to open the state’s notoriously restrictive primary was put off by a judge, asking for a later hearing that involves election officials from all of the state’s 62 counties. But despite a lack of resolution, lawyers urged voters who believe they rightly belong on the Democratic Party rolls to cast provisional ballots in the hope that a further ruling could have them counted.
Jordan Chariton, who has been covering the court proceedings for The Young Turks, tweeted on Monday that there is still hope for voters who believe they should have been able to cast ballots.
The ruling was seen as a win for supporters of Bernie Sanders, who said the actions disproportionately targeted them.
The lawsuit was brought by Election Justice USA, which called on supporters to rally outside the New York courthouse in favor of opening the primary to all voters.
The group had filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to open the state’s primary to voters whose party affiliations had changed without their knowledge. There were numerous reports of voters who met the state’s October deadline to register with a party, but found out that either their affiliation was never updated or somehow switched to unaffiliated."
http://www.inquisitr.com/3012582/new-york-primary-lawsuit-update-voters-wrongly-purged-from-democratic-party-rolls-may-still-be-able-to-vote-judge-declares/#TXhJgyvapJlo2w76.99
Video: NY voter purge lawsuit update
I wish I knew how to embed Facebook videos.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153583636724205&id=210277954204&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FOGnOP2KCj0&_rdr
New York Primary Lawsuit: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
"A New York primary lawsuit might just change everything on the day of the primary itself. Election Justice USA filed an emergency lawsuit in New York on behalf of registered Democrats whose voter status or party affiliation was purged from the voter rolls. (If you can’t vote, find out what to do here.) A hearing for the lawsuit took place this Tuesday morning, April 19. A new hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. today and a favorable result could mean big changes. What does this hearing mean for the primary in New York that is happening today?
Here’s what we know so far."
http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/new-york-election-fraud-lawsuit-results-voter-purge-hearing-open-primary-election-justice-usa/
NY emergency lawsuit updates via Twitter
Here is a twitter user that's giving regular updates on the lawsuit in NY
Check out Jordan (@JordanChariton): https://twitter.com/JordanChariton?s=09
De Blasio Demands Explanation, as Decline in Registered Brooklyn Democrats (126k) Doubles
"Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall.
The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn.
But new data provided by the city Board of Elections on Monday indicates it actually removed 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from the rolls, according to executive director Michael Ryan.
That includes 12,000 people who moved out of the borough, 44,000 people who were moved from active to inactive voter status and 70,000 voters removed from the inactive voter list.
As a Brooklyn Democrat himself, de Blasio said he's concerned about the sudden slump of Democrats on the voter rolls there.
“This number surprises me,” said de Blasio, “I admit that Brooklyn has had a lot of transient population – that’s obvious. Lot of people moving in, lot of people moving out. That might account for some of it. But I'm confused since so many people have moved in, that the number would move that much in the negative direction.”
http://www.wnyc.org/story/de-blasio-demands-explanation-boe-drops-126000-brooklyn-democrats/
Pelosi: "Fabulous" Bernie Sanders "Might Win The Nomination"
At an event at George Washington University on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi praised Bernie Sanders as "fabulous" and said he may even win the nomination.
"It would be fabulous to have a woman president," Pelosi said. "You can't ask somebody to vote for somebody because of their gender."
"[Hillary Clinton] is a very qualified person who happens to be a woman, but I haven't endorsed anybody yet," Pelosi said.
“Bernie Sanders was my colleague in the House. We voted against DOMA, you know, against all of those things people are subjecting to scrutiny now. He's fabulous, and he has a very important tonic for the country and for the Democratic Party because he has ideas," Pelosi said.
"He might win the nomination," she said. "I don't know that because in terms of the demographics of how popular she is in the minority community."
"Do you think it is possible that Bernie Sanders wins the nomination?" the moderator asked.
"You never know," Pelosi said. "And I am a big fan of [former Maryland Governor] Martin O'Malley's as well. He's just fabulous."
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