What will happen if thousands of people can't vote

[jeff47]

61. Wow I really hope no one ever asks you to solve their day-to-day problems

And I really hope you have someone else to solve yours.

How are the people going to get there?

Cars, mostly.

I'm guessing you have absolutely no idea just how fast a road crew can cut up a tree.

Many won't have cars. Public transportation - many don't live near public transportation (as I don't). And much public transportation won't be running.

Fortunately, polling places are located near where people live. And if public transportation is down so they can't commute to work, they won't be busy that day and have time to walk a ways. And if the power is still out after a week, they will be so damn bored they'll relish the experience - having lived through multiple hurricanes myself, I assure you no power and no work for a week leaves you wanting to get out of the house.

How are they going to know what their local poll place is?

Well, most likely it's going to be in the same place it was going to be before the hurricane. While there's tons without power now, that won't be the case in a week. Sure, there will still be some without power, but not the vast swaths we have now.

And again, that assumes the polling place requires power. New York City uses paper ballots fed through optical scanners. So collect the filled-out ballots at the polls and scan them after the polls close at the BoE.

I don't know what systems NJ uses, because they've hidden that information behind a registration wall on their web site. If it's optical, it's the same as for New York City.

And even assuming you absolutely, positively must scan the ballot at the polling place (or if NJ uses DRE), then you can power them at the normal polling place with generators that the National Guard already owns.

Which leads us to "how will they know where to go if the polling place moves?"....if only there was some sort of "media" that could mass-broadcast information. Perhaps some world-wide network of computers where you could post information. Or if only every damn police car were equipped with a loudspeaker. Or if only they could put a fucking sign up at the old polling place. Or 3 billion other ways to get the word out.