Carlos Quinones, a Middletown resident, complained outside the voting site that so few people showed up on the primary election day, Aug. 23.
This is New York’s second primary of the year, which split from the usual June primary under a court order following a legal dispute over redistricting. Congressional and state senate races were on the August ballots.
By early afternoon, about 100 people had cast votes at Middletown Senior Center—the city’s only voting site, according to a poll worker.
“A lot of people only come out one time every four years for the presidential elections, but guess who makes the deal? The Congress. If you don’t vote for Congress, if you don’t vote for House of Representatives, you are not voting,” Quinones told The Epoch Times….