EDITORIAL
THANKING OUR
POLL WORKERS
The ninth and final day of early voting in the
2020 general election in New York City saw
an important milestone reached less than
two hours after the polls opened on Nov. 1.
The millionth New Yorker came in just before
9 a.m. to cast their vote in the all-important presidential
election and other down-ballot races. It is
an achievement worth celebrating, considering
the incredible turnout in only the second-ever
early voting period of a New York general election.
Last fall, in an off-year with no major contests
on the line, only a little more than 60,000 New
Yorkers turned up for the first-ever early voting
period. Sixty-thousand in nine days. The first day
of early voting on Oct. 24 of this year had doubled
the turnout of last year’s entire period — and the
turnout only went up from there.
With 88 early voting sites designated across
New York’s five boroughs, the average number of
voters per site was 11,364 over a nine-day period.
Many polling locations, naturally, far exceeded
that average — and despite reports of long lines
early on, the voters persisted and made sure their
voice was heard.
The operations also improved as the week
went on, and reports of those long lines dwindled
precipitously. That won’t quell the calls to reform
the Board of Elections, which is long overdue
for reform anyway — but it’s time to give credit
where it’s due.
Many, many thanks are in order to the poll
workers who labored over the early voting period
to help people fulfill their civic duties. Though
they were each compensated for their service,
they could have done something else with their
time — but instead, they chose to mask up and
help our democracy perform its most basic yet
most important function.
Our thanks are also offered to the plethora
of poll workers who converged at the more than
14,000 regular polling stations across New York
on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to help voters cast their Election
Day ballots. We wouldn’t have accomplished
what we have over the last two weeks without
their help as the results of the free and fair election
trickle in.
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We have the dedicated poll workers to thank for their help during the record early voting period and a smooth
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