If this is foreshadowing for the national election, November could wind up being total chaos.
Mail in ballots belonging to more than 84,000 Democrats in New York City who were seeking to vote in the presidential primary were disqualified according to newly released data from the Board of Elections.
According to the NY Post, the city received 403,103 mail in ballots for the June 23 Democratic primary and the certified results on Wednesday confirmed that only 318,995 of these ballots were counted.
The 84,108 ballots that were not counted represented 21% of the total mail-in ballots.
The ballots were disqualified for things like arriving late, lacking a postmark or failing to include the signature of the voter. Roughly 30,000 mail-in ballots from Brooklyn alone were invalidated, the Post reported.
The report describes the Postal Service as “woefully underprepared” to handle and process an “avalanche” of mail-in ballots that were distributed and encouraged for use as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The state had paid for pre-paid envelopes to make it easier to vote during the pandemic.
The disaster has now turned into a legal mess, with a federal judge ruling Monday that “thousands of voters” were disenfranchised because of “tardy mailing and processing” of the ballots. Lawyer Arthur Schwartz said…
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