#Early voters brave cold weather and massive lines in NYC

It was another day of hell for early voters in New York City on Sunday.

Lines snaked around several blocks outside polling sites as residents waited for hours in the chilly temps to vote — including a poll worker who said it took her two days to cast her own ballot.

“I had showed up yesterday at around 11:30 [a.m.], and the line was close to five hours long, because I had asked somebody at the halfway point how long they’d been waiting,’’ Hezhzibah Strmic-Pawl, 39, a sociology professor, told The Post outside a Bushwick, Brooklyn, public-housing complex-turned-early-voting site.

She left Saturday without voting, only to return Sunday and wait another two hours to finally vote.

“This morning, I showed up 36 minutes before the polling opened, thinking that it would help. But the line was still three blocks long. … It was f–king really cold,’’ said the prof, who added that she is working the polls Nov. 3.

“And then once I got inside the poll, it was very, very hard to hear anything. The center room where they had folks … was so tiny and so cramped. … It gives me a little bit of anxiety about what I’m going to have to deal with [Nov. 3],’’ she said.

Serko Artinian also spent the past two days trying to cast his ballot at the Masonic temple in Clinton Hill in the borough.

“I went [Saturday], and there were way too many people. I got there at about 10:30 [a.m.], and there were over 700 people in line, and I didn’t want to wait,’’ Artinian said.

“Today I got there at about 9:35 [a.m.], and there were 500, 600 people. I decided I was just going to tough it out. It was cold as hell. I was freezing my a– off.

“But once we started moving, it was quick,’’ he said.

At Brooklyn College, there were about 250 people at one point in line outside Sunday, including Michael Rose, 51, a manager at a software company, who waited nearly three hours to vote.

“It was a six-or seven-block line,” Rose said. “Poll workers were saying ‘We can’t block the side streets.’ … We would move every 10 minutes.’’

There also were several hundred people in line at least at one point Sunday outside the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn.

Nearly double the number of people voted in the city on the first day of early voting Saturday, or more than 93,000 than for all of the nine days of early voting in June for the primaries, the city Board of Elections said.

A BOE spokeswoman did not immediately respond to The Post when asked Sunday whether the board is considering adding to the city’s current 88 early-voting sites, given the extensive waiting times, or what if anything elections officials are doing to ensure the safety of voters standing in lines in the streets.