Committees - Regular Meeting

Other than the transition into the... Before we get to that, we have a quick question.

Yeah, I did run some reports on the absentee ballots requested so far. And we, I also broke it down by county recognition and party for your reference. As of now, we have 18,117 absentee ballot requests in. We really haven't calculated the returns yet because it's just too soon. We just started mailing them out. But we will be generating those reports and distributing them on request. Based on each county-led district, Do you have the separate reports?

So the first report that we're giving you is the option fee ballot request by county legislative district and by park. There are a total of 18,117 ballots requested, 11,714 of those are Democrat, 2,483 Republican, 151 conservative, 46 working family, and 6,206 non-party affiliated. Which is it? Non-party. No party.

There's also a report broken down by congressional district.

So the active voter report, IS ALSO BROKEN DOWN. YOU HAVE 640,000 REGISTERED ACTIVE VOTERS. 317,034 REGISTERED DEMOCRATS. 122,369 REGISTERED REPUBLICANS. 6957 CONSERVATIVES. IT'S WORKING FAMILY. AND THEN 191,874, NO PARTY, NOT A FELLOW. THAT REPORT YOU'RE HOLDING AS WELL. WE ALSO GAVE OUT A REPORT BROKEN DOWN BY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT FOR THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS. OF THE 18,117 ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUESTS THAT ARE IN HOUSE, 10,555 are in the 16th Congressional District. 7,562 in the 17th Congressional District. And in the 17th Congressional District. And the 16th, there are other counties involved. T

Commissioner Nelson and I and the public and all of the elected officials in the state of New York are lucky to have an election system where two parties control the elections under the election law in the state of New York, and the checks and balances are at the highest level of any election operation compared to other states that don't have this system in place. The election law in New York City is very clear how to register people, when to inactivate, how many polling sites you need. There are guidelines in the operation of the election, conduct of the election, the election day operations,

I've been to the Fisher Avenue Post Office. I think this is the third Postmaster they've had there in the last couple of years. And I found out that the business replied mail when it comes back. They only had one person handling that. And when she was on vacation, our mail was held back two weeks. So they processed the business before I met.

The United States Postal Service does not have the tracking capabilities that FedEx and UPS have. I don't think they ever will until they change their sorting and internal operations, because there's In any given week, on any different day, they process mail differently. Different machines, they may send it to Newark, they may send it to Hartford. Western's definitely goes to Newark and comes back, sort of, sometimes. So you can't put your finger on them any one day. And no one there can answer your questions. No one answers the phone. And it's a horror story. So, I mean, the long-term solutio

Both mail gets handled better than that person.

What if they made a deal with FedEx or UPS? Yes.

I'd never experienced any issue with that. Our jurisdiction stops at the 100-foot mark. Anything within that you know, we take ownership, and we can call the police, we can call the local police, have people removed, county police, and we will, if we have to. But after the 100-foot marker, you know, our powers are limited.

We will be with the county police. They will be at the board. They will be driving us around. Yes. And if they're with us and we're at the location, they will take ownership based on our recommendation.