Stringer to audit NYC Board of Elections after Primary Day polling problems, voter disenfranchisement
Massive number of Brooklyn residents knocked off voter registration lists
With more than 125,000 Brooklyn residents left off the voter’s registration list and reports of closed polling sites, faulty ballot scanners, misleading voting site notifications and other voting irregularities, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer blasted the city’s Board of Elections on Tuesday and announced that he will audit the agency’s operations and management.
“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,” Stringer said in a release.
He added, “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. With four elections in New York City in 2016 alone, we don’t have a moment to spare.”