NYC Board of Elections Fixes Broken Voting Machine at 14th Ave. Polls Early This Morning

By Yehudit Garmaise

   Although Boro Parkers who voted first thing this morning at 4211 14th Ave. found the emergency ballot box for mail-in votes to be broken and one voting machine to be locked up and not in use, the NYC Board of Elections fixed the problem by 8:11am, City Councilman Kalman Yeger tweeted.

  An emergency ballot drop box provides a secure and convenient location for voters to return their mail-in ballots from the time they receive them in the mail, up to the time polls close tonight at 9pm.

  When one neighborhood voter asked a poll worker when the voting machines would be available up and running,  she responded nervously, “When [the machine is back up, we will stand the ballots there,”

  “That is something that has to happen. We don’t just set them to the side.”