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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: After Sandy: Polling Site Confusion in Coney Island [Watch (HLS stream): After Sandy: Polling Site Confusion in Coney Island](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/77u7Lqyl.m3u8) (2:19)  _Published 2012-11-05. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many polling sites in NYC have changed. 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It turns out that a lot of these people up here in the projects around this area in the apartments around this area. I have been assigned to what looks like Westford Street. It's about mile and half according to my iPhone. Before that it was right over here. And this is you know, next door. Right at the school. So, right among all the apartment buildings, so that was easy. It's kind of a struggle for people who are in between the folks who would use accessaride and those would walk it. When I located where the polling place is. Face has dropped. And a couple ladies told me, you know, I walked with a cane. It's gonna be too hard to get over there. [ NOISE ] People here are working with an awful lot of stuff. There's a lot of distractions. There's a lot of craziness. [ INAUDIBLE ] spaghetti. Spaghetti. You really, really, really have to be able to hand them the packages it says. If you go to the corner of such and such, on, on Tuesday, there will be a bus to take you to this poll. [ INAUDIBLE ] it's two bucks to go through men. Among things offered by the FEMA, things offered by the city, and they get this, and it's really not geared to ensure that they understand what they're supposed to be doing. What I believe is that over 50 % of them are excited that there is the opportunity to vote even though their place has been washed away and there's no electricity in it so. But the other, the other infuriating thing about it is that there's no phone number on this sheet. There's no one they can call. But half these people don't even have phones. Because their phones are plugged into the wall and the wall doesn't work. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"After Sandy: Polling Site Confusion in Coney Island","description":"In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many polling sites in NYC have changed. 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