City Council Speaker Christine Quinn made an appearance Wednesday morning at a City Council oversight hearing on the New York City Board of Elections’ haphazard  performance on Election Day, and called for major reforms to the voting system, including early voting to reduce the confusion and long lines that many voters experienced in November. The hearing was the sixth of its kind that the Council has held in regard to the Board of Elections since 2010 and came after a… [More]

If ever there were a region with a political split personality, it would be Long Island.… [More]

Logic would dictate that even if the Amedore-Tkaczyk contest goes Republican, the Democrats would still hold a 32–31 majority and we would all be on our merry way. Not so fast.… [More]

Former Gov. David Paterson on the 2012 elections.… [More]

This was supposed to be the election where unlimited amounts of money would flood the democratic process and reshape the country by the sheer force of its volume.… [More]

No incident could have made the case for early voting in New York more compellingly than Hurricane Sandy and the New York City Board of Elections’ ensuing, though not wholly related, incompetent response to the disaster.… [More]

Jacob Anderson reports for City & State: Republican Michael Grimm defeated Democrat challenger Mark Murphy to keep his seat as U.S. Representative of New York’s 13th Congressional District, which includes some of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy last week. As polls closed at 9:00 PM, the only bright spot near Public School 52 in Staten Island came from the generator-powered floodlights illuminating the large white tent that served as a makeshift polling station in the parking lot. The… [More]

As the polls closed last night, elected officials ripped into the Board of Elections for what they perceived to be a lack of preparation and an inability to make adjustments. “We’ve had complaints from constituents where districts have changed,” City Councilman David Greenfield said. “In one case, a constituent had been sent to three different polling locations, we confirmed where he had to go and they said ‘sorry you’re not in the books’ and he’d been coming there for 20… [More]

Frustration is high in Brooklyn as voters experienced long waits and rampant disorganization at several polling sites, all while the Board of Elections has remained silent. One site, Vanderveer Church, had an entire waiting room filled with voters sitting in chairs, waiting to get in line to vote. Some voters who were actually standing in the line had been patiently waiting for up to three hours to cast their ballot. “I was here this morning over an hour outside, waited… [More]

The New York World‘s Anna Goldenberg reports: “It’s been like a stampede,” said Inez Holmes, coordinator at Marlborough Gardens polling station south of Prospect Park. The day care center is crammed with 20 polling booths, four scanners and around 50 people. The station serves five election districts and is also open to voters who have been displaced from other polling sites by superstorm Sandy. Voters scurry around the crowded room, looking for the right line for the scanners, pens, or the… [More]