Despite storm damage, election officials hopeful
Source: AP-Excite
By DAVID B. CARUSO
NEW YORK (AP) - Power generators are being marshaled, polling locations moved and voting machines hurriedly put into place as officials prepare to hold an national election in storm-ravaged sections of New York and New Jersey barely a week after Superstorm Sandy.
Organizers expressed guarded confidence Sunday that the presidential vote will proceed with no major disruptions in most areas hit by the storm, though it was unclear whether the preparations would be enough to avoid depressed turnout in communities where people still lack power or have been driven from their damaged homes.
Some voters will be casting ballots in places different from their usual polls.
In Long Beach, N.Y., a barrier-island city that was inundated with water during the storm, the number of polling places will be cut to four, down from the usual 11. Residents of the devastated borough of Sea Bright, on the New Jersey shore, will have to drive two towns over to vote.
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Jose Gonzalez helps clean out debris from the home of Mike Cafone, his father-in-law, on Cedar Bonnet Island, N.J., Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, after it was damaged by a surge from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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