In New York, City elections officials note that the state Board of Elections has only until this coming Monday afternoon to respond to the federal Justice Department’s request for a sitdown to discuss New York’s failure to move its primaries to comply with The MOVE Act.

…Gov. Cuomo has addressed the military-voting timeframe issue for special elections, but not for regular ones.

Obviously, the state Legislature ended this year’s session without doing anything about the problem (which is fraught with politics from both major parties’ standpoints).

“It is understandable for the state to have serious pressing issues, the debate on gay marriage, property tax caps, independent redistricting, job creation — so one can see how election law issues don’t grab headlines,” NYC Board of Elections Commissioner J.C. Polanco told me this afternoon.