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A Survey of Conditions at the polls in New York City
Presidential Election November 2, 2004
Neal  Rosenstein, Joel  Kelsey, New York Public Interest Research Group, 6/21/2005
Link to Report (PDF)
The presidential election in New York City was as badly run as any in recent years, and new election reform laws may have exacerbated the problems. In this survey report, the New York Public Interest Research Group found, among other things, that forty five percent of Board of Elections' Poll Site Coordinators surveyed failed to correctly answer questions about new identification requirements required of certain voters; six percent of voters surveyed were unjustly asked to produce identification at the polls on November 2 nd; and five percent of voters surveyed relayed to surveyors that, while properly registered, they did not find their name in the poll books on November 2 nd.

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