How Will Sandy Affect Turnout? Ctd

A report of the “voting chaos” in New Jersey:

Meanwhile, displaced New Yorkers will be able to vote from any polling site today, but only for statewide and presidential candidates:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Monday allowing New York voters displaced by superstorm Sandy to cast affidavit ballots at polling sites outside their voting districts. In New York City, officials said as many as 143,000 people wouldn’t be able to vote at their designated polling sites on Tuesday. … [The affidavit voting] could complicate several closely contested races for U.S. Congress, New York State Senate and Assembly, as voters fill out affidavits on ballots printed with candidates for districts that aren’t their own.

Not an auspicious start in New York so far:

Though the region hit by Hurricane Sandy is not expected to be in play in the presidential election, the combination of the storm and heavy morning turnout yielded long lines, confusion, frustration and anger. At several polling sites in New York City the vote scanning machines being used for the first time in a presidential election malfunctioned, forcing workers to resort to paper ballots and slowing the process even more.

More reports around the area:

Flares were lit at the entrance to Public School 52 in the Midland Beach neighborhood an hour before the site opened at 6 a.m. And since there was no light, police helped workers get gas for a generator. Voting machines, meanwhile, had to be moved from inside the school into tents, where heaters were stacked on tables. …

Sandy even threw some kinks in the voting process in parts of New York City where the lights stayed on throughout the storm. In Park Slope, voters who usually cast their ballots at John Jay High School, now serving as an shelter for storm evacuees,  were directed to PS 282, more than a half a mile away.

Earlier Dish coverage here.