NYC early voting closes with more than a million ballots cast

[RandySF]

Early voting has closed in New York City, with more than a million Big Apple residents casting a ballot.

Polls closed for early voters at 5 p.m. Sunday, after nine days. Just after 10:30 a.m. Sunday, the city’s Board of Elections said that a million early votes had been cast. That represents more than 20% of active registered voters in the five boroughs, according to state voter rolls.

New York legalized early voting in 2019 and put it into effect in time for the 2020 election, but many New Yorkers voted absentee in that race due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, over the past four years, voting early has become an ingrained fixture of the democratic process in the Empire State, even as many voters find themselves facing long lines.

“I think it’s very convenient in the sense that you can take your time now instead of the actual day,” said Marceline Herrera Marsalis, a resident voting at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon. “You know, Election Day is a longer line. It’s convenient, basically.”



https://www.amny.com/politics/nyc-early-voting-ends-2024-election/

[Golden Raisin]

1. I voted "Early-in-Person" last Sunday morning in Manhattan

at the New Wing of the American Museum of Natural History (The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation.) Quick, efficient and painless. Nice mix of voters: Old, Young and varied races.

[IbogaProject]

2. I've done early mostly since 2020

Voted election day too. But I really like early voting here in Manhattan as its so relaxed and feels good to get it done with out pressure of all or none on a single day.