it Seems Like the Orange County Board of Elections Does NOT want us to Vote

Here are two photos — the front and back — of the postcard i got from the Orange County, NY, Board of Elections a week or so ago. I kept mine on the fridge until today, when my husband Tim and i went to do Early Voting. One side, the one with “HELPFUL INFORMATION” printed in all caps in red on a yellow background, states in a blue box above the “helpful” one: YOUR POLLING PLACE IS SUNY ORANGE KAPLAN HALL, 73 1st STREET, NEWBURGH, NY 12550. The other side, as you can se, lists the dates and times, BUT NOT THE LOCATIONS, of the primaries and the general election.

NOTICE SOMETHING? Nowhere on that card does it say that our polling place is 401 Washington Street. Guess what? Our polling place was 401 Washington Street.

We GUESSED the correct address after arriving at 73 1st Street and being told by a security team that there was no voting there today. (401 Washington St. is where we sometimes vote if we’re not voting at the middle school on Monument Street.) Luckily, we guessed right, and trekked up to 401 Washington.

This isn’t the first time the Board of Elections has sent out misleading or just plain wrong information about polling places in Newburgh. One might think that they deliberately want to hold down turnout. What do you think?

'“helpful?” 73 1st street is not our early voting polling place.

unlike the incorrect info on the other side of the card the orange county, ny board of elections sent out, this side does not tell us where to vote. So that’s a blessing. but this side says to call them or go to their website to find out some apparently secret “further information,” but when you’ve already gone to the wrong site to vote, do you really want to deal with these people again?