He is usually an Education & Outreach Training and Coaching Specialist for the State Department of Health’s Open Doors by day, but on November 3, Zachary Jordan Borodkin was an accessibility coordinator, tracking barriers for voters with disabilities at a polling site in Midtown Manhattan.
He noted that ten individuals who were visually or hearing impaired used the only two ballot marking devices (BMD) available for people with disabilities at the High School of Art and Design’s polling location, which had 37 privacy booths. Some voters were frustrated because the BMD took longer to fill out their ballots, Borodkin said.
Slow vote counts and machine malfunctions were among the problems in Westchester County on Election Day as the machines that processed ballots stopped working. However, that setback didn’t interfere with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s landslide reelection victory over her challenger Bruce Blakeman, which was the first race called minutes after polls closed…