for that but not one excuse. The worst turnout of any Blue State, habitually. The State is bad but the NYC metro area is even worse in spite of their extended polling hours which are not allowed to the rural counties.
Restrictions, imitations and a pervasive apathy that comes from systemic rot and public distrust.

registration at 18 and open elections as well as mail in voting.

I think only in off year special elections we are under that.

Every year, no matter what sort of election. NYC mayoral elections have dwindling participation, all their elections do, it is chronic voter apathy.

legitimacy in a democratic society. This is meta really as In a large picture question

Neither offered what a large majority of New York Democrats wanted enough to motivate them to vote.

participation rates. Sinking ever lower. Bernie did a bit better in NY than Obama did, Hillary did about the same twice. It's not the candidates. It's NY's election systems that need to be reformed and the public trust restored.

Apparently many local boards of election, including mine, did not send out the cards they usually send reminding people of the election and where to vote.

I am not surprised at all by this.

best turnout when it is really among the worst. It's amazing to me. NYers claim to be all tied into their city but really most of them don't have a clue.

The polls are open until 9 pm, and I have never been asked to show ID at the polls. Also, we have a lot of polling places, so you don't have to wait forever to vote like some states. For all the problems that occurred yesterday, I did not hear much about long lines. I had no wait at all around 7:30 am.

telling people the primary was September 13th. Just one of the may ways they chose to suppress the vote.

http://gothamist.com/2016/03/23/voter_supression.php

SC had a turnout of just 13%. I think it won the race to the bottom?

Yep. Need some independents. And some people recently persuaded to switch or vote. Perhaps?