November 04, 2008
We received various reports sent by email prior to 7:30 am:
- Greenwich Village: "arrived to a line at 5:55 am".
- East Village: "632 am-- lines just starting to move-- I'm 50 yards back. They have one functioning machine. Second one's broken."
- Washington Heights: several hundred people waiting in line around 900 W 190 Street at 6:40 am.
- Williamsburg: "I've got 15 [in line]. Never ever had even one!!!!" 6:14 am.
- Greenpoint: "Arrived at 6:30; about 20 people in the check in line; another 10 in the ED line; got out at about 7:00. NEVER have I had to wait, in ten years of voting in this precinct, to check in or to get to the booth. Of the several hundred people milling about in there, I would say 70% were under age 35, and many were clearly just out of pimples-age."
- Chelsea: 125 people waiting in line outside Bayard Rustin high school at 6 am.
- Tribeca: "Line too long to manage with baby...will try for the 3pm hour"
Allow us to quote some historic voting statistics from Kenneth T. Jackson's wonderful Almanac of New York City we just received in the mail yesterday:
Participation Rate by Borough of Registered Voters in General Elections
2004 Voter Turnout:
58.3% Manhattan
49.9% Bronx
52.2% BRooklyn
55.9% Queens
60.5% Staten Island
54.7% TOTAL
It would seem those records will be shattered today.
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board of elections, election 2008, new york city
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