{"id":97330,"date":"2020-10-25T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aoc-blasts-long-wait-lines-for-voters-at-bronx-polling-site\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T17:52:58","slug":"aoc-blasts-long-wait-lines-for-voters-at-bronx-polling-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aoc-blasts-long-wait-lines-for-voters-at-bronx-polling-site\/","title":{"rendered":"#AOC blasts long wait lines for voters at Bronx polling site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#AOC blasts long wait lines for voters at Bronx polling site<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/USA-ELECTION_OCASIO-CORTEZ_1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        A Bronx polling site got an unexpected visitor Sunday morning \u2014 local Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who blasted current hours-long waits across the city to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no place in the United States of America where two-, three-, four-hour waits to vote is acceptable,\u2019\u2019 the Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist pol said outside a Parkchester site, one of 88 spots open to Big <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>le residents to cast their ballots before Election Day on Nov. 3, including many locations where lines have been wrapping around blocks since early voting began Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd just because it is happening in a blue state doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t voter suppression,\u201d AOC said of the extensive waits and New York\u2019s traditional Democratic Party leaning, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/politics\/aoc-joins-voters-as-long-lines-continue-on-day-2-of-early-voting\/7325549\/\">according to video posted to ABC<\/a>. \u201cThere is very clearly a problem. There is a lot of work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that being said, I am thrilled to see how many people who are overcoming this injustice,\u2019\u2019 the US representative said. \u201cWe are going to overcome this hurdle, so that we can elect the folks that make sure this is not a problem in the future.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The number of Big Apple residents voting Saturday, or 93,830, was near double the total amount of early voters for all of the nine days it was allowed for the primaries in June, according to city Board of Election figures.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/25\/aoc-blasts-long-wait-lines-for-voters-at-bronx-polling-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#AOC blasts long wait lines for voters at Bronx polling site&#8221; A Bronx polling site got an unexpected visitor Sunday morning \u2014 local Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who blasted current hours-long waits across the city to vote. \u201cThere is no place in the United States of America where two-, three-, four-hour waits to vote is acceptable,\u2019\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97331,"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\/USA-ELECTION_OCASIO-CORTEZ_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[77111,4997,70288,77152,70806,70473],"class_list":["post-97330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-25-20","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-elections","tag-parkchester","tag-the-bronx","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97330","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=97330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}