De Blasio, AOC chide NYC elections board over long waits for early voting

NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the Board of Elections to deploy more voting machines at early voting sites and expand hours after a weekend of long lines for New Yorkers casting their ballots.

On Saturday and Sunday, the first time New York has allowed early voting in a presidential election, 193,915 city residents voted in person and lines at many sites stretched for blocks. The mayor and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in separate press conferences, called on the city elections board to better manage the influx of eager voters.

“Right now we’ve got a problem. The Board of Elections was clearly not prepared for this kind of turnout, and needs to make adjustments immediately,” de Blasio said at his daily press briefing Monday. “Long lines tell people to go home. That’s just the reality.”

While it’s too late to open more early voting sites, the mayor said the BOE has plenty of voting machines that won’t be used until election day and should set up more of them at early sites to speed up waits.

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