{"id":46210,"date":"2022-06-30T08:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46210"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:05:55","slug":"sometimes-its-hard-to-vote-in-a-republican-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46210","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It’s Hard To Vote In A Republican Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The New York Post<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

At least three\u00a0Big Apple election sites told voters they didn\u2019t have Republican ballots for\u00a0New York\u2019s primary race<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0as\u00a0thousands headed to the polls<\/a>\u00a0to cast their vote for governor, The Post has learned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One voter, Ed Gavin, 62, arrived at his Bronx polling site in Spuyten Duyvil around 8:15 a.m. to cast his vote for GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino but after checking in with a poll worker, he was handed a Democratic ballot instead, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy party never came up, my political preferences were never discussed \u2026 I opened the sleeve and I saw the names of Tom Suozzi, Kathy Hochul and Jumaane Williams. These were all Democrats for governor,\u201d Gavin, a retired Department of Correction deputy warden, told The Post.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI flipped it over because I thought maybe the Republicans were on the back but there were no Republicans.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gavin was incredulous and went back to the poll worker to inform them he\u2019d been given the wrong ballot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me \u2018we don\u2019t have any Republican ballots,\u2019\u201d Gavin recalled.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The Post later visited the polling site and confirmed with a worker that Republican ballots were unavailable to voters earlier in the morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t find the ballots earlier, but we have them now,\u201d the worker said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Vincent Ignizio, the Deputy Executive Director of the city Board of Elections, didn\u2019t dispute Gavin\u2019s account when asked by The Post for comment, and instead, shifted blame to the polling location.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur 1,200-plus polling sites citywide are aware that we have both Republican and Democratic statewide primaries today, and the ballots for each to distribute. We have reiterated this to our borough offices to ensure all voters receive the appropriate ballots,\u201d Ignizio said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Giove reported her issue on Twitter, a rep tweeted back to her that they would investigate what happened.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gavin, who voted for Mayor Eric Adams during the mayoral election, called the snafu unacceptable and said he would\u2019ve been just as angry if he found out there were no Democratic ballots available at the location.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unbelievable!<\/p>\n

Ed Gavin noted that some of the things he felt were on the ballot in New York this year were crime, bail reform, and criminal justice.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, The New York Post reported the following: At least three\u00a0Big Apple election sites told voters they didn\u2019t have Republican ballots for\u00a0New York\u2019s primary race\u00a0Tuesday,\u00a0as\u00a0thousands headed to the polls\u00a0to cast their vote for governor, The Post has learned. One … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2221,15458,15459,8321],"class_list":["post-46210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bronx","tag-new-yorks-primary-election","tag-primary-ballots","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46211,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46210\/revisions\/46211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}