NEW YORK (Sputnik) — An audit of the New York City Board of Elections (BOE) will take place after errors left more tens of thousands residents off of voting lists during today’s primary election, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a statement.
"The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections can effectively administer elections and we intend to find out why the BOE is so consistently disorganized, chaotic and inefficient," Stringer stated on Tuesday.
According to Stringer’s office, "more than 125,000 voters in Brooklyn were removed from voter rolls" and there were widespread reports of voters "having trouble accessing polling sites and other polling irregularities."
"At PS 73 in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, residents waiting for the polls to open at 6 a.m. were furious that workers couldn’t access keys to the facility," the New York Post reported.
The report noted similar complaints at a separate polling site in Brooklyn near the Barclays Center Arena.
"These errors today indicate that additional major reforms will be needed to the Board of Elections and in the state law governing it," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio commented on the issue.
The New York primary will close on Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern time (1:00 a.m. GMT on Wednesday).
