Phyllis Beard and her husband, Shelly, bounced from one Long Island voting location to another. They were at Oceanside High School, their third stop.
"Nobody has gas to get around, and they are sending us here and there," said Phyllis Beard, 74, a retired off-track betting employee. "We get in there and they don't have the registration books, no voting material, no booths."
Seeking Suffrage
Confusion about where to vote was common on Brooklyn's Coney Island, one of the areas hardest hit by Sandy.
Abdul Suluki, 83, has been voting at the same polling station two blocks from his high-rise apartment building on Mermaid Avenue and West 23rd Street for years.
"They wait till the last minute this morning, they changed it and said you can't go there no more," said the retired auto mechanic, who ended up casting his ballot at Abraham Lincoln High School at 2800 Ocean Parkway.
Suluki said it took about 45 minutes to find the new location.
Along the storm-lashed New Jersey shore, Ocean and Monmouth counties moved more than 180 polling sites, many in beachfront communities that suffered severe damage.
American Rite
In Ocean County, a bus equipped with 12 voting machines went to eight shelters to allow as many as 15,000 displaced residents to cast early votes yesterday, said George L. Gilmore, the county's election-board chairman.