{"id":102341,"date":"2020-11-01T02:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-cuomo-co-couldnt-be-bothered-to-prevent-early-voting-mess\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T02:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T23:53:55","slug":"de-blasio-cuomo-co-couldnt-be-bothered-to-prevent-early-voting-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-cuomo-co-couldnt-be-bothered-to-prevent-early-voting-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio, Cuomo & Co. couldn\u2019t be bothered to prevent early-voting mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio, Cuomo & Co. couldn\u2019t be bothered to prevent early-voting mess<\/strong>”
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\n Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo\u2019s fury over the hours-long early-voting lines would be totally righteous \u2014 except that these problems were entirely foreseeable, yet neither man, nor any other local leader, lifted a finger to prevent them.<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s Boards of Election (including one for each county) are political-patronage cesspools. They screw up regularly \u2014 and are always overwhelmed by anything new.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been obvious for months that voting in a pandemic would pose big challenges, yet neither the mayor nor the gov offered new funding for the BOEs. Nor, it seems, did either review the plans for early voting, which have been on file for weeks, at the least.<\/p>\n

This, though de Blasio is spending big on his new Democracy Office \u2014 or is that a political dumping ground, too?<\/p>\n

Cuomo, meanwhile, hasn\u2019t bothered to act on the deadlock that\u2019s crippled the state Board of Elections, where Democrats and Republicans joined to neuter his chief enforcement counsel and the board is unable to choose a new executive director to run the show.<\/p>\n

The result, as The Post reported exclusively this past week, was woefully unequal and inadequate distribution of ballot scanners across the city. Sites in places like Park Slope and the Upper East Side were overwhelmed, while locations such as the Barclays Center had excess capacity.<\/p>\n

The whole city has just 88 early-voting centers, as opposed to 1,200 poll sites on Election Day. Again, those plans have been on file for weeks.<\/p>\n

As for state Sen. Mike Gianaris\u2019 bill to require twice as many early-voting sites: It will only app<\/a>ly to future elections, when demand won\u2019t be inflated by the peculiar circumstances of a pandemic.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s leaders are simply posturing about this mess: If they were serious, they\u2019d fight for fundamental reform of the boards \u2014 which would mean taking on the machinery in both parties that benefits from the status quo.<\/p>\n

This mess is squarely in their laps \u2014 as are those to come in years ahead. But all they offer is Kabuki-theater \u201coutrage.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#De Blasio, Cuomo & Co. couldn\u2019t be bothered to prevent early-voting mess” Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo\u2019s fury over the hours-long early-voting lines would be totally righteous \u2014 except that these problems were entirely foreseeable, yet neither man, nor any other local leader, lifted a finger to prevent them. New York City\u2019s Boards of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/103020_early-vote_24RM.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[77885,70327,70430,5042,72997,43,70473],"class_list":["post-102341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-31-20","tag-2020-presidential-election","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-board-of-elections","tag-editorial","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}