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Sandy hit the East coast with an unforgiving vengeance and with just a few days before the Presidential Elections, she has left states hit hard without power and without polling station options. 

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Officials from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are working to find identify alternate polling places for Tuesday’s, a task that may prove troublesome on last minute notice. 

According to a report on Bloomberg.com, 

Electrical outages and flooding of beachfront communities in New Jersey made it difficult to contact municipal clerks to coordinate plans for the election four days away, officials said. Police in Nassau County outside New York City inspected 52 polling places that election officials couldn’t reach by phone.

The resolve has been to move polling locations and leave early voter sites open for longer hours, but with a major election looming in the midst of Sandy’s doom, New Jersey’s top election official, Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, is calling this situation “basically a logistical nightmare.”

Guadagno also ordered local election boards to identify by noon today alternative locations for “inaccessible” polling places and directed all election and county clerks’ offices to stay open “at a minimum” of eight hours each day through Nov. 5 for early voting.

SOURCE: Bloomberg.com