Bungled NYC primary voting sparks Board of Elections probe
Apr-20-2016

A record-setting deluge of Primary Day voter complaints led Tuesday to the angry promise of a full-scale investigation into the city's long-bumbling Board of Election.

The flood of gripes, running the gamut from locked doors to botched voter rolls, led irate city Controller Scott Stringer to announce an immediate probe of an incompetent agency.

"Unfortunately in New York City, this is nothing new," Stringer told a news conference some 10 hours after the polls opened - or didn't - at 6 a.m. "The next president of the United States could very easily be decided tonight.

"And yet the incompetence of the Board of Elections puts a cloud over these results. It's time we clean up this mess."

Presidential primary voters in the five boroughs ran an obstacle course of ineptitude to cast their ballots: Broken machines, shuttered precincts and purged voter rolls.

The most complaints came from Brooklyn, where entire sections of poll books listing the names of eligible voters were reported missing, according to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

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