(DNAINFO) April 20, 2016 — Some voters turned up to vote to find their polling places had moved or that they weren’t on the rolls.
Voters across the city trying to cast their ballot in the first meaningful state primary in years faced myriad problems at the polls.
New Yorkers from the Upper West Side to The Bronx showed up their longtime polling placesonly to find they’d been moved. Others found that their names had dropped off the voter rolls. And still others faced various paperwork snafus.
Matthew Spiegelman said he’s voted in the same location at P.S. 17 in Williamsburg since 2008 — but on Tuesday, poll workers couldn’t find his address in their books, he said.
“[The worker] double checked my address and quickly said ‘it looks like you’ll have to vote via affidavit also, that’s been happening a lot today,'” he told DNAinfo. “I never had this issue before.”