N.Y. like the Deep South in voting: pol

New York is as bad as the Deep South when it comes to voter disenfranchisement and Democrats share the blame, according to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

In the wake of Tiffany Caban’s concession in the Democratic primary for Queens district attorney, the freshman congresswoman is laying blame for her fellow progressive’s loss at the feet of state lawmakers and Gov. Cuomo.

“Voter disenfranchisement in the State of New York is a given,” she told the Daily News on Wednesday. “Our voting laws are horrifying in how they suppress the vote and how they disenfranchise voters on a regular basis.”

Caban conceded Tuesday, cementing Melinda Katz’s official 60-vote lead after six weeks of contentious recounts and court battles.

Ocasio-Cortez said there is plenty of blame to go around, but called out Cuomo for not signing an election reform bill that Caban supporters believe could have put the Manhattan public defender over the top.

“New York State historically has been just as bad as any deep Southern state when it comes to voter disenfranchisement, whether it’s poll location changes, whether it’s having your ballot tossed out over technicalities even though you’re a registered Democrat, which also happened in this race,” OcasioCortez (D-Queens, Bronx) said. “But it was legal disenfranchisement, so that disenfranchisement was within the bounds of the law.”

Cuomo has yet to sign a bill passed by Democrats in the Legislature in mid-June that would loosen the requirements for validating affidavit ballots. The bill would allow affidavit ballots to be counted as long as the voter “substantially complied” with the form.

Asked specifically about whether Cuomo is to blame, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think that this legislation should have been signed as quickly as possible.”