Polling places opened late, poll workers weren’t trained, there weren’t enough “privacy sleeves,” and some scanners jammed: those were just some of the problems discussed at yesterday’s City Council post-mortem about problems connected with the new voting procedures on primary day last month.
Hopefully by the actual election on November 2nd these problems will be resolved.
The Board of Elections said at yesterday’s hearing that additional training will be provided to poll worker and more privacy sleeves will be available in the booths where voters mark their ballots, so they can conceal ballots as they walk to the scanner.
Board of Elections Administrative Manager Pam Perkins told WNYC that the board would conduct additional training of coordinators and poll workers so they “will be better prepared to respond to voters’ needs.”