New York City's election preparation efforts have also been hampered by flooding, power outages, and transportation shutdowns. The city's election board said their offices in Manhattan and Staten Island were closed and phone hotline was not operating correctly, but that additional staff had been assigned to handle absentee ballots and election preparations.
The state's original deadline to request an absentee ballot by mail or phone was Tuesday, when the storm was battering parts of the state, but the elections board said the deadline has been extended through Friday. While absentee ballots returned by mail can not be postmarked after Monday, the elections board extended by nearly a week the window for those ballots to be received. The deadline for voters to submit an absentee ballot in person has not changed from Monday, the board said.
In person voting could hit hurdles, too, as a survey on Wednesday of Long Island's Nassau County showed nine in ten polling stations were without power and nearly seven in ten were in flood plains.
If voters have to use polling places out of their districts, it will take even longer to verify and count, as they could either be provisional ballots or filled in optical ballots that would have to be sent to board offices with power to be read by optical scanners programmed correctly for the different district's ballot formats.
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