Daily News' Celeste Katz reports on the voting at PS 321 in Park Slope:
"Apparently even Sen. Chuck Schumer isn't immune to the pitfalls of the new voting system.
What the hElmo is going on with these voting machines?
A party insider told me Schumer showed up at his polling place, P.S. 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at 5:55 a.m., and was "agitated and unhappy" at how things went.
"They don't open the polling place until 6:10... They can't figure out how to open the machine and he is, like, screaming at the staff that he wants to vote," the insider said.
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