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Voter registration backlog no more, say City Commissioners
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Voter registration backlog no more, say City Commissioners
Yesterday, City Paper reported on a backlog of unprocessed voter registration applications over at the City Commissioners. A backlog of moor than 40,000 voter applications had been announced several weeks ago, but so had a deadline for eliminating it (last Sunday) which had quietly passed without, it seemed, the backlog's having been eliminated.
Today, however, City Commissioners announced at their weekly public meeting (it had been moved from Wednesday due to the storm) that the backlog is no more. Voter registration administrator Greg Irving reported to City Commissioners Anthony Clark, Stephanie Singer, and Al Schmidt that "All voter registration applications that were submitted in a timely manner for this election have been processed," and that "all absentee ballots up until the election deadline have been processed except 300 currently being worked on."
It was welcome news to watchdog groups like the Committee of Seventy, which wrote a letter to the commissioners on Thursday asking for an update on the backlog.
But today's announcement answer all of Seventy's concerns. Asked by Seventy's Ellen Kaplan about the procedure for applications that were filled out incorrectly, City Commissioners said today that anyone seeking to correct an application would have to do so by November 3rd — tomorrow, that is, even though the last applications were only processed yesterday and it's not clear that applicants will get notice of the problem registration in time to fix it.
In indirect answer to Kaplan's inquiries, Election Specialist Tim Dowling noted to the commissioners that "We have given the people every opportunity to get this information to us ... it is the responsibility of the voter."
But voters don't always turn in their own registrations — and it's possible people who thought they'd been registered already were in the backlog through no fault of their own, and now faced a closing window to correct any errors.
Kaplan raised the point: "But in light of the fact that the deadline for corrections is tomorrow," she began, but was cut off.
"We're open tomorrow, eight to eight," said Elections Specialist Tim Dowling, not quite answering the question but, in a way, answering it loud and clear.
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