From the New York Daily News: Nearly six months after President Obama began his second term, the votes of some 1,600 Brooklyn residents who went to the polls were not counted until this week, the Daily News has learned.
Good government groups reacted with outrage — saying the bungling raises new questions about the ability of the Board of Elections to conduct an error-free mayoral election later this year.
“There’s three weeks between the primary and the runoff election, and the board is going to have to perform at an optimal level,” said Alex Camarda, of Citizens Union....
A board investigation narrowed the problem to two optical scanners at two poll sites — Brooklyn Borough Hall and the Carroll Gardens Public Library.
Voters cast ballots on those machines, but the data never got uploaded into the Board of Elections database and the votes were not counted...
Using the paper trail from the two scanners, officials counted the results by hand, a process only completed last week. Meeting on Tuesday — 238 days after Election Day — the Board of Elections added the totals to the official vote count.
The totals did not change the outcome of any race, from the presidential contest to those further down the ballot. But as history has shown, a tiny margin can have major ramifications in a local election.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/1-600-botched-ballots-article-1.1389882#ixzz2YAizOhCp
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