As candidates in New York and Kentucky duked it out during the last heated hours of their Congressional primaries, voters faced a battle of their own: casting their ballots amid a global pandemic
“Everybody should be upset, especially because a lot of the workers are elderly,” said Ebony Charles, who voted in Brooklyn after requesting but failing to receive an absentee ballot. “It’s either incompetence, corruption or both.”
“I enjoy the ritual of going in to vote. It’s a very mundane but kind of an important rite as an American,” said Jake Shifman, 29, of Queens. Earlier in the week, some national Democrats registered concerns over voter suppression, because there were only about 200 polling places in the state, down from the usual 3,700. The cities of Louisville and Lexington each only had one physical, in-person polling place on Election Day.
Kentucky’s Secretary of State Michael Adams, a Republican, and Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear came to an agreement in late-April to drastically expand voting by mail in the state and allow for early voting. Kentucky typically requires voters to have an excuse to cast a mail-in ballot.
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