URGENT: Majority of New York Polling Places Don't Open Until Noon! Sanders Supporters Need to Know

[leftcoastmountains]

Last edited Thu Apr 14, 2016, 05:41 PM - Edit history (1)

ASAP if they Are Affected.

Please share the following link and tweet it out. Our voting rights are being suppressed and most people in NY State have no idea they will not be able to cast their ballots until Noon. I called one of Sanders' Regional Press Secretaries, and he didn't have this information and no one is publicizing it here in New York that I know of.

Yesterday, by pure happenstance, while checking to see that my county had not changed my registration information from Democrat to Independent (yeah, since Arizona I've been paranoid about such stuff) I discovered something that shocked me. The polls where I live will only be open from 12 Noon until 9 PM, making it difficult for many people who work swing shifts to vote.

I checked today to see if this was a statewide phenomenon, or limited to the cheapskates on my own local Board of Elections. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that outside of New York City and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam and Erie, where the polls will open at 6 o’clock in the morning, every other county in New York does not open for voting until Noon. Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam counties are all essentially suburbs of New York City. Erie County, which includes Buffalo, is the only outlier in the bunch.

That means the voters in every other county in New York state will lose those six critical morning hours in which to cast their ballots. If you think this doesn't matter, think again. Many poor and lower middle class folks work swing shifts, which will make it much more difficult for them to vote in this election. If you think that seems unwarranted and unfair, and smacks of potential voter suppression, well join the crowd.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4esx70/urgent_majority_of_new_york_polling_places_dont/

Gotta say the more I read about how difficult it is to vote in other states, the more I realize how easy I have it in California.
Anyone can vote absentee, no questions asked. There's early voting. I believe voting starts in the morning hours on election day. And we have primaries where if you are "no party preference" you can vote Democratic. I would prefer totally open primaries but can't beat this with a stick.