With Election Day less than three months away and no end to the coronavirus pandemic in sight, election officials in New York are scrambling to handle an expected spike in absentee ballots.
New York State Board of Elections Commissioner Peter Kosinski calls what the state accomplished in the June primary an “impossible task.” Not only were local boards conducting multiple elections on the same day, and dealing with the dramatics of an off-again-on-again Democratic primary — thanks to COVID-19, he says roughly 40 percent of this summer’s nearly 2 million votes took place via mail-in, absentee ballot.
“The rules around the elections were constantly changing," said Kosinski in a recent State Senate hearing.
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