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If you don't leave right at five o'clock - I had work to do - sometimes you get caught at the train tracks as they are dropping tanker cars off at the propane depot in North Albany. The delivery is at 5:10-5:20 pm usually on Thursdays and Mondays. The train blocks both the siding on the main line, the only way around is to make a U turn and head a mile north to Menands

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Workers Say They Were Pressured to Pay for N.Y.C. Election Jobs – The New York Times

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Workers Say They Were Pressured to Pay for N.Y.C. Election Jobs – The New York Times

Poll workers in New York can earn about $2,750 each election cycle if they work all nine early-voting days plus Election Day. Elected district leaders in each borough, both Republicans and Democrats, get a say in assigning people to those roles. Editors’ Picks 5 Simple Tips to Make the Most of Those Precious Eggs Tech for Babies Is Booming. Here’s What One Parent Found Helped the Most. For Sale: Hidden Treasures by Bill Cunningham SKIP ADVERTISEMENT

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But poll workers in the Bronx described a pay-to-play scheme in which getting and keeping coveted jobs required contributing money and collecting signatures to help Republican candidates get on the ballot.

Their payments — usually $150 apiece and sometimes several times in one election cycle — were recorded in state campaign finance records as donations to the Bronx Republican Party.