Get real-time election results for the local races across Queens County and New York. All rights reserved. “They had to sort of ramp up and do an awful lot of things that they’ve never done before,” said Betsy Gotbaum, executive director of the non-partisan government accountability watchdog group Citizens Union. “This election is a canary in the coal mine,” said Suraj Patel, a Democrat running for Congress in a district that includes parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, who has filed a federal lawsuit over the primary. stood in line for hours for the June 23 primary, New York Primary Plagued By Voting Issues, Including Long Lines, Broken Machines And Absentee Ballot Mix-Ups, New Yorkers Urged To Fill Out Census, Register To Vote With Deadlines Less Than 100 Days Away, NYCLU, Public Advocate Push Board Of Elections To Address Voting Issues Before November, See It: MTA Workers Build Illegal 'Man Cave' In Grand Central Terminal; 'Few Would Have The Chutzpah', AMBER Alert: Pennsylvania Girl Found Safe In Brooklyn, Suspect In Custody, AMBER Alert: Police Searching For Crystal Johnson, Accused Of Abducting 3 Children In Brooklyn, NYC Officials Threaten To Shut Down Neighborhoods Experiencing COVID Spikes, Gov. Ultimately, he was defeated in the 12th Congressional District. The city’s Board of Elections is not expected to certify the vote until Tuesday. The Postal Service apparently had difficulty processing some of them correctly and, as a result, an unknown number of votes — perhaps thousands — may have been wrongfully disqualified because of a lack of a postmark. The congresswoman and her campaign have portrayed Caruso-Cabrera as a candidate backed by corporate interests and Trump allies, highlighting media reports that financial executives and pro-Trump donors have contributed to Caruso-Cabrera. The New York City Board of Elections said today that Staten Island will begin counting absentee ballots on July 6, and Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx on July 8. The Board of Elections is charged with the responsibility of overseeing that all election related activities are executed in accordance with the New York State election law as interpreted by the Orange County Commissioners of Elections and the New York State Board of Elections. “Well, what was that?” he said. Andrew M. Cuomo and other officials are trading blame for the botched counting in the city, and the Postal Service is coming under criticism over whether it is equipped to handle the sharp increase in absentee ballots. But it’s likely the Board of Elections is overwhelmed with more absentee ballots than usual. This open-seat race is a wild and unpredictable primary with a dozen candidates. Robert Ardini, President Boddie, Stephen Comley, Roque De La Fuente, Bob Ely, Larry Horn, Zoltan Istvan, Rick Kraft, Star Locke, Matthew Matern, Mary Maxwell, Eric Merrill, William Murphy, No Preference, Others, Juan Payne, Mark Sanford, Total Write-ins, Uncommitted, Joe Walsh. They pointed out the difficulties in protecting election workers from the coronavirus, and cited state laws requiring the disqualification of ballots for various small errors — including missing signatures on ballot envelopes or envelopes sealed with tape — for contributing to the high number of invalidated ballots. Read live updates. The district, which includes parts of the Bronx and Queens, is heavily Democratic and considered to be a reliably blue seat. Even so, some unmarked ballots got through. See complete delegate counts and how the top Republican candidates stack up.
As all eyes now focus on the November election, the question is can the board of elections handle what may be a record turnout, in person or by mail, during a global pandemic? “It’s a very deep learning curve.”. Races listed are based on data obtained from the New York State Board of Elections by the Associated Press.
New York is a reliable Democratic state in presidential elections.
While the intention may have been to encourage voting, the infrastructure lagged: Until a wave of changes approved in 2019, New York had been behind other states in adopting measures like early voting. Jeffery C. Mays, Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Emma G. Fitzsimmons contributed reporting. Live: New York State Primary Election Results 2020 The Associated Press expects a delay in vote tabulation and race calls because a large number of New York voters cast absentee ballots. “It isn’t rocket science.”. Find the results, maps, live projections and polls from the New York primary on June 23rd, 2020 where Democrats and Republicans vote for their presidential and house candidates.