Brooklynites waiting in line for multiple hours to cast
their ballots. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Everything you need
to know about voting
Due to long longs and increased demand,
the New York City Board of Elections has
expanded the number of hours available
for early voting.
Brooklynites can now head to their designated
polling site for to cast their ballot each
day until Nov. 1, as well as on Nov. 3 for the
official Election Day.
The full remaining schedule to vote is:
• Friday, 10/30 from 7 am to 5 pm
• Saturday, 10/31 from 7 am to 5 pm
• Sunday, 11/1 from 7 am to 4 pm
• Tuesday, 11/3 from 6 am to 9 pm
To fi nd out which early voting site you are
assigned to, visit fi ndmypollsite.vote.nyc.
To ensure public safety amid the ongoing
pandemic, all poll workers are required to
wear masks, and other saftey measures will be
in place, like enforced social distancing for all
people inside polling locations.
Voters who are planning to cast their
vote via absentee ballot are encouraged to
mail those votes as soon as possible, or alternatively
drop them off at the Board of Elections
location at 345 Adams Street, 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Rose holds slight lead over Malliotakis heading into election
COURIER LIFE, OCT. 30-NOV. 5, 2020 5
IN ACTION
long lines, record turnout
De Blasio waits hours
to vote, slams BOE
BY BEN VERDE
Mayor Bill de Blasio
waited in line for several
hours on Tuesday to cast
his ballot in Park Slope
during the city’s early
voting period — saying
extended wait times
were “not acceptable,”
and blasting the Board
of Elections for failing to
move the crowds along.
“People are making
very clear how much
they want to vote, and
they’re waiting hours
and hours. That’s not acceptable,”
Hizzoner said
during an appearance on
NY1 while he waited at
the Park Slope Armory.
“Every site, the hours
should be expanded immediately,
especially
for this weekend. More
staff, more machines —
whatever it takes.”
De Blasio arrived at
the YMCA voting location
on Eighth Avenue
between 14th and 15th
streets at around 1:30 pm,
inching along with the socially
distant line of civic
minded Brooklynites until
he reached the polling
station just after 5:00 pm.
While waiting, the
mayor took phone calls,
chatted with constituents,
dealt with the occasional
heckler — and
passed out slices from
Smiling Pizzeria on
Ninth Street to his fellow
exasperated voters.
With just 88 early
polling sites open in the
city to accommodate fi ve
million registered, thousands
of New Yorkers
looking to cast their ballots
have seen similarly
long wait times since
early voting began on
Saturday.
In response to complaints
from politicians
and citizens alike, the
often-criticized Board
of Elections announced
that it would expand
voting hours over the
weekend to accommodate
the high demand
— but the mayor told reporters
that’s not nearly
enough, as the polling locations
lacked necessary
resources like staff and
voting machines.
“There’s not enough
sites, there’s not enough
machines, there’s not
enough staff, there’s not
enough hours,” he said.
“It’s so far off from what
was needed.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio waited in line for over 3 hours at the
Park Slope armory to cast his ballot. Mayor’s Press Offi ce
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Congressman Max Rose
slightly leads Assemblywoman
Nicole Malliotakis in the race
to represent swaths of southern
Brooklyn and Staten Island in
the United States House of Representatives,
according to election
forecasters at FiveThirtyEight.
The data-driven site gives
Rose a 57 percent chance of
winning reelection to the seat
he first won in 2018, while Malliotakis,
longtime area politico
who had been the Republican
nominee for mayor in 2017,
boasts a 43 percent chance of
securing victory.
Rose, a 33-year-old army veteran,
beat Republican incumbent
Dan Donovan during an
election cycle that was very favorable
to Democrats in the last
national midterms.
Now, the freshman legislator
is attempting to defend himself
during a presidential election
year against Malliotakis in
the 11th Congressional District,
where President Donald Trump
won by an 11-point margin in
2016.
Over the past several weeks,
Malliotakis has gained ground in
forecasted projections, as recent
polls have shown the race tightening
— with FiveThirtyEight’s
model seeing her chances nearly
double after a Marist College
survey of likely voters showed
the congressional election in a
virtual deadlock.
Rep. Max Rose and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis