Great Neck Estates voters might be casting their ballots the old fashioned way during the upcoming election, according to Mayor David Fox.
At a regular meeting of the Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees Monday, Fox said the voting process might be forced to take a step back in time.
“We may wind up going back to the third century, everybody will be voting on a piece of paper,” said the mayor. “We can’t use the lever machines, the county doesn’t want to give us the scanning machines, we don’t know if the ballots are right.”
With the confusion, Fox said the village may actually have to wind up using paper and a lock box for voting.
“Quill pens will be provided,” joked Fox.
The board designated voting hours between noon and 9 p.m. for the March 15 village election.
This year, the terms of Mayor David Fox, Trustee William Warner, Trustee Sidney Krugman and Judge Harold Hoffman will expire. Candidate petitions must be filed with the village by Feb. 8.
The mayor and trustees serve two-year terms. Village justices serve four-year terms. Great Neck Estates elected officials serve without compensation.
Also at the meeting, a Great Neck Police officer cleared up any rumors surrounding the recent break-ins in Kings Point and Great Neck Village when the issue was raised by a local resident at the meeting.
“There were three in Kings Point and one in the Village of Great Neck just outside of Kings Point. There was a lot of rumors that there was one or two in Great Neck Estates. There was none in Great Neck Estates,” said a Great Neck Estates police sergeant at the meeting. “It was all in one general location up north.”
Nassau detectives are still investigating and no arrests have been made to this point, according to the police sergeant.
Fox confirmed that the break-ins were localized in the area north of Steamboat road.
