"Where I voted this morning in the Greenpoint
section of Brooklyn, EVERY VOTING MACHINE WAS
BROKEN!" writes one voter. "This is COMPLETELY
UNACCEPTABLE!"

The Village Voice

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), November 08, 2000

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ELECTION 2000 Polling Problems Plague Election

(Fort Greene, Brooklyn-WABC, November 7, 2000)_ Voting in our area isn't that simple. With so many voters in our area and so many polling places there have been problems plaguing the election process.

Outside PS 67 in Fort Greene, turnout has been very heavy, but along with the heavy turnout there have been technical problems that have compromised the process in some cases. A repairman worked on a voting machine in East New York, Brooklyn, some four hours after it broke down. In New Lots there were no voting machines until 9am, three hours after polls opened. In Fort Greene, faulty levers and voting machine problems could, according to some workers, invalidate hundreds of early morning votes. In the East Bronx, what appeared to be well-intended aid to elderly workers amounted to breaking the rules on the part of poll workers who were asking workers what their political party preferences was. A judge who happened to be voting at that station called a halt to that kind of help. http://abcnews.go.com/local/wabc/news/45704_1172000.html

-- Doris (reaper@pacifier.com), November 08, 2000.