New York City voting will be ‘safe and secure’: NYPD
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BY TODD MAISEL
Voting in the 1,201 citywide
polling sites will be “safe and
secure” on election day as millions
go to cast their ballots in
the controversial presidential
election on Nov. 3.
Chief of Department Terence
Monahan said there is
no credible threat for any of
the polling sites in New York
City and at least one police officer
will be assigned to every
polling which is mandated by
law. In addition, there will be
rapid response teams spread
out throughout the city of hundreds
of officers should need
to arise at any conceivable incident.
“Currently, there are no
known threats nor do we expect
it, but the NYPD will be
out there to protect the right
to poll at the polls,” said Monahan,
adding that officers will
be assigned to the 88 locations
that will be opening on Saturday,
Oct. 24 to Nov. 1 for early
voting.
“We will have hundreds of
additional police at the ready
if needed to respond to any of
the voting locations,” he said.
Officials said they have
been monitoring social media,
and have been training for any
eventualities and have been
providing additional training
to officers in the field for numerous
scenarios.
Monahan said he didn’t expect
anything different from
past election days, though he
did expect a large turnout.
“We look around the country
to see what has occurred
and we didn’t find anything to
support us doing anything different
– if something changes,
we will be ready,” Monahan
said.
Deputy Commissioner of
Counterterrorism John Miller
also assured the public that
there was no “credible threat”
though police are looking for
any threats of intimidation
or fraud at the polls. He added
that they are more concerned
with cyber threats, including
ransom ware, hacking, tampering
and other on-line issues
that New York City Cyber
Command will be monitoring.
Police are also watching
for any demonstrations that
might seek to interfere with
the right to vote, but Monahan
said there is currently “no evidence
that this is a threat.”
“If people protest, we will
facilitate for them, but we don’t
want to see this city damaged,”
Monahan said. “If anyone tries
to interfere with the right to
vote we will take action. We
don’t expect any large demonstrations
at this time. Even
the extreme left and the right,
they want people to vote.”
President Donald Trump
has claimed the possibility of
voter fraud, but officials say
they see zero evidence of this
in New York City.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan assured the public that there is no known threat to the
election and said people will be safe to go to the polls. Photo by Todd Maisel
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