12 NOVEMBER 5, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
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.
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We have the dedicated poll workers to thank for their help during the record early voting period and a smooth
Election Day. Photo by Dean Moses
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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