Because there were so many problems with the digital scanner voting machines last time, the old mechanical lever machines were brought back for this primary only. We'll vote in November with the digital scanner machines. In the meantime, in many districts, seemingly primarily in Brooklyn, many of the old mechanical machines are broken or malfunctioning in some way. OTOH, as I recall, that was the usual situation in the past with those machines.
More than one district votes in my polling place. My district has a line of waiting voters, For reasons I attribute entirely to Issues of Overdevelopment,* within which overdevelopment's center perches the Biggest Real Estate Spider, NYU. NYUniveristy's overdevelopment plans include replacing the only supermarket and community garden in the district with more NYU, and privatizing Washington Square Park. The other districts are doing nothing pretty much, as per usual for a primary.
Since everything is being done by hand in so many places, and depending on the number of absentee ballots cast, it is expected that the final tally for the outcome may take some days to declare. So far, there are no projections. This is one of those primaries where there will have to be yet another primary party run-off, if none of the candidates this round received 40% of the vote.
* I have in mind the classic 1968 Cuban film, Memories of Underdevelopment, in Spanish, Memorias del Subdesarrollo, adapted from the novel by Edmundo Desnoes. Once a staple of university film courses and festivals, the Cuban film depicts the opposing end of overdevelopment, among other reflections. The central figure is an aspiring novelist. Film also has a role, as another theme is memory.
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