This ain’t good, @BOENYC: it’s never taken me longer than 5 mins to vote in nyc. I went in at 6:10, there was no one, and it took me 40 minutes to vote. I was only there because I never got my absentee ballot.

First pass, I was given three identical ballots for the local race and none for presidential. They couldn’t find the presidential ballots. “We have Korean and Chinese,” they offer. Do they also have English on them? They do. I get a Chinese ballot.

I feed my local ballot into the machine. Rejected! I feed my Chinese ballot into the machine. Rejected! Ten minutes and many tries later, I rip up my ballot and await a new one.

We’re in a gym. After fifteen minutes of sitting on a bench like I’m on time out, I am given new ballots. I fill them out. I feed one into the machine. It is accepted! It is the third ballot to be accepted. It’s 6:35. I feed in the next one.

Rejected again! I turn my ballot around and around like it’s a treasure map. On the back it says, in red, at the top, AFFADAVIT. It shouldn’t say this! I point out the error. I am given a third presidential ballot, one that doesn’t say AFFADAVIT on the back. I fill it out.

It’s accepted! Ballot number 4 at one of the two machines at my polling place. At 6:50, I’m the second person to vote at that machine.

As I’m leaving, a woman on the street asks how it went, says she heard it was a sh*tshow. Heard how? From who? The polls haven’t even been open an hour!

If this is what it’s like to vote in a primary in New York, I cannot fathom what people in Kentucky and Georgia and whatnot have to go through. I tried to vote by mail! For the people who did: who will be processing their ballots, and how?

Voting is not a new thing. I’m concerned that it’s suddenly a disaster.

Attn @DarrigoMelanie, from my little gerrymandered corner of Bayside.