{"id":75927,"date":"2020-09-26T01:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T22:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-elections-boss-blasts-carranza-in-flap-over-school-polls\/"},"modified":"2020-09-26T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T22:32:34","slug":"nyc-elections-boss-blasts-carranza-in-flap-over-school-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-elections-boss-blasts-carranza-in-flap-over-school-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC Elections boss blasts Carranza in flap over school polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC Elections boss blasts Carranza in flap over school polls<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The head of the city Board of Elections slammed Chancellor Richard Carranza Friday, saying the schools boss blindsided him with objections to using 20 schools and nine child care facilities as early voting sites for nine days leading up to the Nov. 3 general<\/a> election.<\/p>\n

Elections executive director Michael Ryan said his staff had been working \u201cvery closely\u201d with Department of Education officials for months about the designation of early voting sites amid the coronavirus pandemic and \u201cno one told us there was a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan said he was taken aback by a Sept. 11 letter he received from Carranza and Dept. of Youth and Community Development Commissioner Bill Chong, who told him the 29 designated sites could not be used and demanded the BOE \u201cmust find alternative sites\u201d because of COVID-19 safety concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll also say I have a phone that works and getting a phone call instead of a letter may have been a better way to have that initial conversation,\u201d a clearly miffed Ryan said during a City Council hearing.<\/p>\n

Ryan suggested that Carranza and Chong flunked Common Sense 101, noting that 15 of the 20 schools used as early voting sites during the June 23 primary election had entrances that went directly to the room used as a poll site and therefore did not disrupt school operations.<\/p>\n

Ryan said it\u2019s too late to change the sites and insisted the 29 school and child care sites must be used.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot conduct early voting in the way we want to \u2014 while maintaining social<\/a> distancing and providing many convenient locations for folks to vote \u2014 without these 29 sites,\u201d Ryan said.<\/p>\n

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New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza<\/span>REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He said it\u2019s \u201cpast time\u201d to \u201cmove along.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike during early voting \u2014 at select sites from Oct. 24 through Nov. 1 \u2014 all public schools are closed on Nov. 3 Election Day so use of the facilities as poll sites is not a problem on that day.<\/p>\n

In the letter, Carranza and Chong said \u201cthese sites were presented extremely late, with no opportunity for feedback from the Department of Education.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly, during last year\u2019s general election, the City Board of Elections selected early voting sites behind closed doors. Although we worked diligently to make sure early voting ran smoothly during school instruction, it was ultimately very disruptive for students, faculty, and our school communities,\u201d the said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Administration and Department of Education have been very clear that continuing to use schools as early voting sites while school is in session is not realistic moving forward. It is even more critical this fall when we are tasked with ensuring that social distancing is maintained during in-school learning and that our schools are safe for students and staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt present, asking the Department of Education to shoulder the responsibility of hosting early voting while trying to educate children during a pandemic is unacceptable and not operationally feasible,\u201d the educators maintained.<\/p>\n

In other matters, Ryan said he expects more than 1 million city residents will app<\/a>ly to receive a mail-in ballot for the Nov. 3 election. More than 520,000 absentee ballots are already being sent to voters who requested one.<\/p>\n

State election officials are bracing for as many as 5 million absentee ballots \u2014 and government watchdog groups are concerned whether the city BOE and other local election agencies will be prepared for the onslaught, such as counting an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is being pressured to cough up $50 million to help with election administration, has offered to assign the National Guard to assist at polling sites.<\/p>\n

The city elections agency mailed out 775,000 absentee ballots for the June 23 primary and 326,000 were received and counted. But 23 percent of the mail-in ballots were disqualified because of defects, including failing to provide a signature and post-mark snafus that triggered a federal lawsuit alleging voter disenfranchisement.<\/p>\n

A recently approved state law allows for voters to correct such defects, which should reduce the number of invalidated ballots.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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