Just 44,611 New Yorkers took advantage of the nine-day early voting period for the June 27 primary elections for City Council, Queens and Bronx district attorney and several judgeships, according to unofficial tallies from the city Board of Elections (BOE).
That means only about 1.3% of the city’s roughly 3.6 million registered Democratic and Republican voters checked-in at over 100 early voting sites spread across the city over the period.
The sad showing among New Yorkers voting early could be due to this being an off-year election, with no higher ticket races for citywide, statewide or national office on the ballot and the City Council having just run for reelection two years ago. The short-turnaround for reelecting all 51 council members, which usually takes place every four years, is a result of last year’s redistricting, where the council map was redrawn in accordance with the biennial U.S Census.
Further adding to the low early voting turnout, this year saw only a handful of competitive races across the four of the five boroughs — with no primaries at all in Staten Island.
Ben Weinberg, director of public policy at the good government group Citizens Union, said about two-thirds of the City Council races this year are uncontested, so the low turnout is “unsurprising.”
“Many New Yorkers don’t even have anything on their ballots, or they might only have stuff like judicial delegates and positions that usually people are not really familiar with,” Weinberg said.
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So disappointed that Woodside has to tolerate another four lame years of Cabán. My two blocks that fall into District Council 22 failed to vote against her after significant encouragement.
Might as well sell my home and move my family. Such a shame someone who does so little for the people they represent remains in office, but that is our world.
Only the Orange Man (Think #TDS) gets the left nut jobs out to vote early !
Sad, very sad...
One party rule should be unconstitutional
This must be Joe Biden's fault.
Most NYers are stupid people. They will always put Democrats in office no matter what.
Fucking Democrats won't even show up for their own carpetbagging scumbag "Electeds"
Hey, that looks like a Trumpanzee in the voting booth! I bet he voted for Katz.
Hey I aint yo slave, yo aint mah slave master on de plantation. So shut up and vote for da Dems, the Dem ticket all da way. No ya aint gonna get no ripe wader melan. Cos I'm an adult and not really a politician, I just play one. like 'member Charley McCarthy? I got a ventriloquist behinds me. I bes da real McCoy, da real dummy. wes went on Jerry Springer, Mr. Jerry Springer, a fine man, a fine man indeed. We dun the DNA bidness . Charley McCarthy is mah real father. Ya can see da resemblence. I'm da puppet of da Dem Machinery.
I wish we could vote for someone like Meatball Ron. Then we could enjoy stuff like book burning, arresting teachers, micro managing peoples words. He reminds me of that Pol Pot character in Cambodia back a few decades ago.
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