Nyc board of elections
The group wants to remove a rule from the books that makes it a crime to provide food or water to people waiting in line to vote.
The event is hosted by Assemblymember Latrice Walker, who has been skeptical of the process.
The NYC Board of Elections' release and later retraction of unofficial ranked-choice voting tallies has been called a "national embarrassment."
Most New Yorkers will using ranked choice voting for the first time in June, for the primary.
The first citywide election with ranked-choice voting is the June primary.
The new early voting site will be at Marymount Manhattan College for Saturday and Sunday only.
Thursday’s appointment once again highlighted the political underpinnings of the notoriously problem-plagued agency responsible for overseeing all elections in New York City
The governor wanted only new envelopes to be sent to voters.
The issue sits at the nexus of Covid-19’s effect on in-person voting and chronic underfunding of the postal service.
BOE staff had been continuing to go to work amidst the governor's New York on PAUSE order.
As of the close of polls on Thursday, 32,481 voters turned out citywide.
'It was great. Didn’t have to take off from work, didn’t have to put things aside,' one voter said.