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TreasonousBastard

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3. I'm a NY State Dem committee member and election judge...
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 08:18 AM
Mar 2020

Our elections are run by the counties with minimal interference from the state, although the state has the ultimate authority.

NY primaries are subject to Byzantine laws primarily designed to reduce competition.

We have ballot readers that are approaching the end of their lives and positioning them for more than one day at a time in schools, churches, malls, etc is problematic.

Paying election workers $200-300 a day each for several additional days can hurt the county budget big time.

We do not have a working plan for absentee or otherwise non-personal voting. We are really hopelessly behind in that.

It would be nice if this causes the state and counties to wake up, but I don't see it happening any time soon..

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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