With the first ballots arriving in New Yorkers’ mailboxes, serious concerns and potential errors are already popping up
Photo: Pacific Press/LightRocket via Ge As Republican senators join the president in laying the rhetorical groundwork to contest November’s slow trickle of mail-in ballots, absentee voting troubles in the general election have already begun in New York City.
Though the typo is officially moot — the city’s Board of Elections uses identical forms for military and absentee voters — the language suggests that the ballot is for military members who are not voting in person, leading to concerns that voters could discard them. “There’s just mass confusion about these ballots and what people are supposed to do with them,” City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer told the Post.
As Gothamist notes, “the error with the absentee ballot envelopes has much bigger implications” than the military/absentee confusion “because an untold number of voters could be disenfranchised if the BOE doesn’t intervene in time.” While the Board of Elections has provided a helpful ballot tracker to determine where in the process a person’s vote is, that tool would not address the problems named above.
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