How’s Your Voting Experience Today?

The federal primary elections are today, and the polls are open until 9pm. You can find your polling place at the Board of Elections website, or you can call the Kings County Board of Elections at 718-797-8800, or the NYC Board of Elections at 866-VOTE-NYC.

In our area, only the new 9th Congressional district has a Democratic primary election today, between incumbent Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (see our interview here) and challenger Sylvia Kinard (see our interview here). You may have been redesitricted right out of what you used to vote for–you can see the old borders of the 11th district and the new borders of the 9th right here.

In all of New York, Republicans can vote on the U.S. Senate race, where Bob Turner (currently representing the 9th Congressional district), attorney Wendy Long, and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos are competing to take on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in November.

For voters in our area, it sounds like it might not be going so well. Spanky Tomato said:

I vote in every election and dread it each time. This morning at 6:50am with not one other voter in the auditorium at PS 139 it took me 20 minutes to vote. I was given the wrong form twice. The first was some kind of oath that asked a million questions and the second was a ballot that was too big for the scanner. I told the workers these forms were wrong but they all bunched around me and told me to really push it into the scanner. And, as I’ve experienced many times before, privacy is an absolute joke as they paw and flip my ballot over and over trying to figure whiy it won’t go in the scanner (wrong form chaps). And to think my tax dollars pay for this fiasco.

If you have complaints about the voting process, contact the Kings County Board of Elections at 718-797-8800, the NYC Board of Elections at 866-VOTE-NYC, or 311.

If you’ve already voted or you plan on voting, good luck, and let us know how it goes!

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