ISSUE 179 p VOLUME 002 m WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008, New York THEW YORK'S FREE DAILY NEWSPAPER. sows Sag A STomnS 78°| 69° =a VOTE 1,002 DEAD IN IRAQ DEATH TOLL OF AMERICANS HITS TROUSUNG MLESTONE E HER ‘ AQ ik & R 6 OFFAL SBaHis ISRAEL'S NY CONSUL TALKS WITH Us ABOUT TEFACR, Pourics,8 DA&LIG SHOW ven vot whol th Foard o Elects ection may nc ad ter corect wang beth. The bar as set outhoisands of ties wih a cldess tha dosent eet VOTER BEWARE Election Board sends out polling place address that does not exist BY ADAM HUTTON armor St Wier Thousands of voters on the Lower East Side’ af Manhattan ney ace be New Tork Citys Bowed of Blections is lesding them ste [East month the beard mulled change-opoling-lace notices te 2500 woter — with an sdeken that does mot exe Chris Riley. a Beard of Elections spokesmen, std the szeney made a mistake by omitting prt of the srcot address fr the Compos Community Center at 611 Ease 1ith Se Before trailed Riley sid election ‘ffcals double-shecked che bright yellow cords, which Usted the $Midossas 6 East Street. Ye, the Insta slipped by Te cerrctthe mo, Riley aid the brad ie sending ovr new letter © ‘votes impacted by the change (One of the disenfanchised wren, OMe ‘Tievor Bundy of $17 Fast 13th St. sad he hasyet toreceive any comee- tion from the Boord of Eletins, ‘Wher 1 called the other da they aid chey di mit even know ifehes were going to make a eonec- tion,” Bundy told anNewior. “So, Til believe it when Lee 1 Bud neted data phn envelope svonttsce as much attention aig ellen exe “These envelopes had better cerry a big bunner in 32peine fore that reads: We Serowed Up The Yellow Gards, Corected Poling Plaze Informacion Inside,” said Bandy, 25 “Otherwse,2 lot of people are going tots it befor they open te thine ing its another piece of sletion” yeeejunk mail “Game November 2 some fils in my neighberhcod age still wong to ‘wake up ard say. “Wait a: minuce, theres no such thingas Hast Sect. Alter che debacle in lod in 2000, this typeof minke i uneccepecle and boul to incre dirt of the ‘sovem, Tm disusted.” Coed on page furFaulty notices may damage strength of voter confidence ented om poge 1 Fomunately there are 20 primary races in the area, Wehilagives the board ime to fix the Hunder and pene for Bection Day, the board spokesman si "The corrected notices were imal to secre in the JH Asembly District yestrdsy, bu one expert says thedam- age hes akeady been done. Somethings simple as leaving ou part of an address fon an offictd notice can be ‘enough to impact the results SPan cleetion and devise forer confidence, said Neal Rosenstein f the New Yee Public Inverest Research Gwup (PRG) Rrcenetcn, NYPIRG's. are femment reform cordinat, explained that if voters Sthioualh no fale of their com” were confused by the notices and went to heir pro vious poling place to cost their votes, they would be allowed to fil outa paper tal- lec." Sadly, the NYPIRG spokesman wld amNewYork, those blows wou be wont the taper they'e primed on because they will not be cnunted ‘A mishap ike this can undemine roter confelence in’ the system ‘aot only because paper ballots east at the wrong oliag place will het te counted, ber soo by expodng vores toa negative faperiense at the polls,” Rorerstein told amNewYork, ‘And I think it's incumbent tapon the beard to co eve thing they can w address the head of these voters. "To do 39, Rosewstein sid the board should. make sare voters who mske thei wsy 0 their old polling places are fedceced. And although i's feo lite, he sud the bowrd should eve desgned the er- rected notice robe mote ere fetching than the fest one