{"id":6618,"date":"2020-06-12T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-prepares-for-wild-unpredictable-primary-elections-amid-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T03:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:46:00","slug":"new-york-prepares-for-wild-unpredictable-primary-elections-amid-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-prepares-for-wild-unpredictable-primary-elections-amid-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York prepares for wild, unpredictable primary elections amid coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af012bf05ce1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af012bf05ce1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-prepares-for-wild-unpredictable-primary-elections-amid-coronavirus\/#Key_New_York_primary_races_include\" >Key New York primary races include:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#New York prepares for wild, unpredictable primary elections amid coronavirus<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        New York\u2019s June 23 primary elections \u2014 taking place amid a once-in-a-century coronavirus pandemic \u2014 could turn out to be the most unpredictable in modern history, with the outcomes of many competitive races left up in the air on Election Night because hundreds of thousands of voters casting ballots by mail.<\/p>\n<p>About 1 million voters statewide have filed requests with election agencies to vote by absentee ballots \u2014 including about 300,000 in New York City and another 285,000 combined in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City elections board has so far received almost six times the number of absentee <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications this year \u2014 291,947 \u2014 as four years ago, when 50,998 were filed during the presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order allowing New Yorkers to vote by absentee or mail-in ballot to help reduce \u201cin-person\u201d voting and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Many poll workers are elderly and more susceptible to catching the killer bug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a significant portion of the vote coming in via absentee ballots it will likely take weeks after the elections to count all the ballots and declare winners,\u201d said state Board of Elections spokesman John Conklin.<\/p>\n<p>A city Board of Elections insider said, \u201cAs much as half the vote could be by absentee ballot. We just don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fred Umane, a Manhattan Republican commissioner and secretary to the city elections board, said it\u2019s the most unpredictable election in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a tremendous amount of uncertainty over who may have won or lost in close races because of potential large number of absentee ballots,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Election officials here claim they won\u2019t be caught short-handed or unprepared as Georgia elections districts were during primary elections earlier this week, where polling sites were besieged by hours-long lines caused by defective voting equipment and poll worker shortages.<\/p>\n<p>City election officials insist they have roughly the same number of poll inspectors and coordinators who requested to man polling sites in 2016, though it\u2019s unclear how many will show up because of the pandemic. Under normal circumstances, about 30 percent of poll workers don\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in better shape than Georgia,\u201d Umane insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The city Board of Elections purchased 10,000 Plexiglass table top dividers to make interactions between voters and poll workers safer. It also ordered hundreds of thousands of two-in-one stylus pens that can be given to each voter to sign in on a tablet and fill out their ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Poll workers are paid $250 per day and site coordinators are paid $350 per day \u2014 easy cash at a time when many residents are unemployed because of the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers will have many opportunities to vote. Nine days of early voting begins on Saturday and runs through June 21 at 79 sites in the city. Voters can look up their polling site online at https:\/\/vote.nyc\/.<\/p>\n<p>Mail-in applications for an absentee ballot must be postmarked by June 16, although that deadline is extended to June 22 if the voter plans on applying in-person at a local Board of Elections office.<\/p>\n<p>The actual mail-in ballot must be postmarked by June 22.<\/p>\n<p>The courts ruled that New York had to hold a Democratic presidential primary even though all the other candidates suspended their campaigns and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15821291\"><img alt=\"Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden\u2019s victory is a moot point on Primary Day \u2014 he has also already amassed more than the 1,991 delegates needed for the nomination.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_New_York_primary_races_include\"><\/span>Key New York primary races include:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 16th Congressional District (Bronx-Westchester): Veteran Rep. Eliot Engel, 73, the foreign relations committee chairman first elected in 1988, faces his toughest Democratic primary yet from insurgent rival Jamaal Bowman, a former Bronx middle school principal. He could become the next Joe Crowley, who was defeated by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez two years ago. With just two weeks left in the race, most of Congress\u2019 New York legislators have remained silent and refrained from endorsing their beleaguered colleague as he fights for his political life, which was not helped by a hot-mic blunder earlier in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 14th CD (Bronx-Queens): Speaking of AOC, the first-time incumbent Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist is facing a spirited primary from former business journalist Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, who has attacked Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s contrarian voting record, spats with Democratic leaders and opposition to Amazon\u2019s aborted plan to open a headquarters on the Queens waterfront. But Caruso-Cabrera\u2019s ties to Republicans donors and her prior conservative positions don\u2019t aide her cause in a Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 15th CD (South Bronx): The battle to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano. Councilman Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr., a lightning rod for opposing gay marriage and abortion, is considered a leading candidate along with Councilman Ritchie Torres. Others in the races include former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, AOC-backed Samelys Torres, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and Assemblyman Michael Blake.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15821317\"><img alt=\"Councilman Ritchie Torres\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Councilman Ritchie Torres<\/span><span>REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2022 9th CD (Brooklyn) \u2014 Rep. Yvette Clarke faces a tough challenge from several opponents, including a rematch with chief rival Adem Bunkeddeko, who she only narrowly defeated in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 12th CD (Manhattan-Queens-Brooklyn): \u2014 Veteran Rep. Carolyn Maloney faces a rematch from her chief rival from two years ago, hotel magnate Suraj Patel, as well as candidate Lauren Ashcraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11th CD (Staten Island-Brooklyn): In a rare Republican primary, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis faces off against prosecutor Joe Caldarera to determine who takes on first-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Max Rose in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2nd CD (Suffolk-Nassau): There\u2019s a Republican primary to replace retiring veteran Rep. Peter King. King and the GOP leadership are backing Assemblyman Andrew Garbarino over fellow Assemblyman Michael LiPetri.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Queens Borough President: A Democratic primary to fill a seat vacated by Melinda Katz, who was elected Queens DA last year. Councilman Donovan Richards is the party-backed front-runner. Other candidates include Councilman Costa Constantinides, former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and former cop Anthony Miranda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 35th Assembly District (Queens): Disgraced pol Hiram Monserrate is making yet another comeback bid by challenging veteran Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry in the East Elmhurst and Corona neighborhood. Aubry is black but the district has a growing Hispanic population, which Monserrate is making his pitch to. He was elected district leader two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 36th AD (Queens): Incumbent Aravella Simotas is being challenged by lefty insurgent Zohran Mamdani in Astoria.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 50th AD (Brooklyn): Veteran Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, 77, faces a stiff challenge from progressive activist Emily Gallagher in Greenpoint and Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 43rd AD (Brooklyn): Former State Sen. Jesse Hamilton is challenging Assemblywoman Diana Richardson in a district that covers Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens. 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