North Brooklyners braved a still-simmering pandemic and the hot humidity on Tuesday to cast their votes in New York’s 2020 democratic primary elections.
While the primary is the appetizer before the entrée of the general election, most of the winners in New York City are effectively guaranteed office as the city’s population overwhelmingly skews Democrat.
Absentee ballots are much more predominant in this election…
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This voting by mail option is good but details have to change.
Because of a fast initial start, people did not get ballots and could mail them in past the election date.
There must be a deadline of pre Election Day when the ballots must be postmarked in the future say one week before Election Day.
If the results are delayed by weeks or even months, the integrity of the election could be in doubt since there will be more time to hack the results.