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Also in Manhattan, two longtime incumbents - Reps.
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Primary Day part two is marked by some fiercely competitive races, including in a newly drawn, deep blue district in Lower Manhattan where a dozen Democrats are duking it out to become the new member of Congress there.
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THE CITY’s interactive redistricting map can show you where your new district falls and who’s running in each place. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-The Bronx/Queens), Gregory Meeks (D-Queens), Ritchie Torres (D-The Bronx) and others - you could have a state Senate seat to vote on. Remember: Even if you are in a district that has no congressional primary - as is the case for those represented by Reps. Nobody talked about her.”įind out if you have a primary contest in your area by seeing your sample ballot through the city Board of Elections address look-up tool. “She’s a Democrat, but we don’t know who she is. Who’s that? We don’t know who she is,” she said, pointing at a photo posted on a tree of Miguelina Camilo, who is running against Gustavo Rivera in Senate District 33.
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In the Fordham section of The Bronx, 28-year-old Diana Rankins and a co-worker at a local preschool said they felt uninterested in voting because they felt their votes didn’t count, and they don’t really know the candidates running. “They’re not just coming out for a single candidate, they’re coming out for a movement,” Karolidis added. Stylianos Karolidis, a 28-year-old volunteer for state Senate candidate Kristen Gonzalez, said Tuesday morning that turnout had been low at Long Island City High School, where he set up a table with leaflets.īut “the people that are turning out are very favorable,” he said. 23 contest, according to the city Board of Elections, down more than a million from the 3.6 million people who had been eligible in the city’s June primary. On Tuesday, city voters get their final chance to choose candidates for the House of Representatives and state Senate, but not all New Yorkers have contests in their neighborhoods.Ībout 2.3 million New Yorkers have competitive races and can cast a ballot in the Aug. It tells us, don’t put any elections in August.” “What does turnout tell us about voting? It doesn’t. “In a major way, the city empties out, and the people who haven’t left the city are at the beach,” she said. Turnout for some state-level primaries ranged between 19% and 39%, depending on the district.īut New York’s “bizarre and unique situation” makes comparing Tuesday’s “dog days of summer” primary to any other futile, according to Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause NY, the voting rights and education nonprofit. Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible.Īnd the city saw 25.7% overall turnout during 2020’s primary election, and 23% turnout of the 2021 mayoral election primaries.ĭuring the previous midterm election year, in 2018 - during which the city had not yet implemented early voting - overall turnout was just over 39%, the city Campaign Finance Board reported. Including those, overall turnout in the city would reach at least 9.4%.īy comparison, 12.3% of eligible voters turned out during June’s primary, Gothamist reported. Those figures do not include absentee voting at least 31,774 absentee ballots had been returned to the city Board of Elections as of Aug. That’s down more than two percentage points from the 5.6% of eligible voters who cast ballots during early voting in June for the city’s first primary of the year, which covered the governor’s race and state Assembly.Īs of noon Tuesday, the BOE reported that 184,536 people had cast in-person ballots - through early voting and Election Day voting - boosting overall turnout to 8%. After a chaotic redistricting process that created a second New York primary in late August, the final day of voting began following anemic early turnout figures on a steamy summer Tuesday.Īs of Monday, 3.3% of voters with a race in their district had cast ballots in the five boroughs during the nine days of early voting for Primary Day, part two.