I sent my voter registration through Rock the Vote the week of September 3rd, yet there is no record of my registration. My wife sent in her registration through League of Women voters and was registered in a few short weeks. The difference between our registrations was this: I had sent mine to the Albany, NY address that Rock the Vote had provided and my wife had sent hers to the Bronx County courthouse address that League of Women voters had provided.

Now, I believe you when you say that the NYS Board of Elections has said that it was okay for Rock the Vote to send registration forms to the Albany address; after all, it IS the NYS BOARD OF ELECTIONS. I’m sure they can get the work done too. But clearly, the outrageously more efficient system was for Rock to the Vote to have provided individual county addresses like all the other registration drives out there!!!

To say that I am livid is a massive understatement. I am disappointed in Rock the Vote for failing to recognize and acknowledge that, yes, they have made a mistake. It was supremely upsetting to find out what happened to my registration through a New York Times article and even more upsetting that Rock the Vote is only now, less than two weeks before the elections, contacting the 100,000 unregistered voters about the mishap. Unbelievable. Take some responsibility, unless you are a GOP operative in NYC trying to block the vote (because that was my initial suspicion).

To be clear, I still want to vote very badly and if there is anything that you can do at this point to have me registered in time to vote, please do so. But to be honest, I don’t expect Rock the Vote to pull through; especially since you still won’t acknowledge that you screwed up by going the far inefficient route to registering an eager voter.

MH
Bronx, NY