Thread by @gauravsabnis

This is the longest it's ever taken me to vote and I love it! Ranked Choice Voting is awesome! #NYCvotes

People are noticing Paperboy Love Prince there. It is sort of a prank candidacy but is very serious too. One of those "this is so new York!" stories.

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If the field didn't have the right wing billionaire bought interloper Yang, I would totally have given one of my 5 votes to Paperboy. But at this precarious moment in history for our city,

Ok, some silly feelings. Feeling that omg this the first time a poll worker lady didn't even ask my name and was full on flirting with me and I'm hundred percent sure I'm taking her to bed tonight. 🤣🤣🤣

Aw, wife said a 102 year old just voted at her site. 😍😍😍

Damn, 102 years old means survived the spanish flu pandemic AND this one and is still showing up in person to vote!!!

OK, I'm officially obsessed with this. 102 and showing up to vote in a mayoral primary, not even presidential general election or anything. Does not do postal ballot. Walks on a humid summer day to vote in person. Life extends from Spanish flu to post covid NYC! What a life!

This person has survived the depression, ww2, korea, Vietnam, civil rights, mafia, 70s crime waves, cold war paranoia, 9/11, great recession, hurricane sandy, trump, covid, and is still full of life enough to show up to vote in a mayoral primary!

One of my octogenarian neighbors once said to me something so profound "you know the thing about being an old hippie is that inside, I'm still that 21 year old flower child. It's this stupid body that won't play ball. :("

Here is literally the smallest possible covid silver lining. If you vote in NYC, you now get your own free good quality biro which is also a stylus you can use on a touch screen. Pre-covid, you had to return them. Now, obviously cos of pandemic protocols, you just keep it.

Hearing from @k_rupal that a lot of voters today had to be given a provisional affidavit ballot because in the system, they are not showing up as registered D or R. Remember, this is not technically an election, though it practically is. It's technically a primary.

#nycvotes

Unlike the November general election, when if you're a citizen, you pretty much walk in and vote at least in NYC without any ID or anything, primaries are tied to parties. For me to vote today, I had to be a registered Democrat (get the D ballot) or Republican (get the R ballot).

Whenever you register to vote, you also have to choose your affiliation and that's meant for primaries. You only vote in a party's primaries if you officially registered as that. If you chose "independent", at least in NY, you can't vote in a primary.

Like so much in the US, this varies wildly by state. Many states (not NY) have what are called "open primaries". You just have to be a registered voter. Show up, choose which party's primary you want to vote in, and you're done. The system makes sure you can only vote in one.

Aside - with the wife working as an election worker the last couple of years, I've gotten a close look at NY election systems and they are sooooo tamper proof! Why the Big Lie is such a Big Lie. VOTER FRAUD IN USA IS A MYTH!