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What you need
to know about
early voting
BY JENNA BAGCAL
Early voting for the June 2021 primaries
kicked off last weekend for some key races in
New York City including mayor, comptroller,
public advocate, City Council and borough
presidents.
From Saturday, June 12, until Sunday,
June 20, voters can go to cast their ballots
ahead of the Tuesday, June 22, primary. This
year’s primary elections will use rankedchoice
voting, which allows voters to rank
up to five candidates for each city office. The
mayor recently used a pizza topping metaphor
to explain ranked choice voting. Voting.nyc
also put out a helpful video to guide people
heading to the polls.
Ranked-choice voting will not be used for
the Manhattan district attorney race.
During the last year, early voting has
proven to be a popular option for voters who
were not able to get to the polls on election
day. Just last November, over 1 million New
Yorkers came out to cast their votes early for
the presidential election.
Here is what you should know ahead of
early voting.
The candidates
Visit voting.nyc/meet-the-candidates/2021-
races to find out who is running for each of the
city offices. The Board of Elections also put out
of a list of who is running for each position.
For even more comprehensive political
coverage about every single candidate running
for office, visit politicsNY.com.
Where to vote
Early voting is a lot like voting on election
day, except the hours are more flexible and
there are more opportunities to cast ballots.
Find out your early voting site, which often
differs from election day sites, at findmypollsite.
vote.nyc or by calling 1-866-Vote-NYC.
According to the BOE, there are 21 early
voting sites in Manhattan, 22 in the Bronx,
32 in Brooklyn, 19 in Queens and 10 on Staten
Island.
Here are the days and hours for all early
voting locations through June 20:
• Friday, June 18, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Saturday, June 19, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Sunday, June 20, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Adams stands with sanitation workers
demanding pay and gender equity
Mayoral candidate Eric Adams stands with DSNY city
workers demanding racial and gender pay equity at a
rally on June 14. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann
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Wiley, Bagga cross-endorse
each other
New York City mayoral candidate
Maya Wiley and City Council
District 26 candidate Amit
Singh Bagga issued a cross-endorsement.
Bagga and Wiley made the announcement
in a joint appearance
at the Queensbridge Houses in
Long Island City.
“Amit is a dedicated and brilliant
public servant and a progressive
champion who shares my
vision for the future of New York,”
Wiley said. “From his incredible
work on the Census to his tireless
advocacy to make government
work for working New Yorkers,
Amit is an inspiration.”
Bagga said he was “honored”
to receive Wiley’s endorsement.
“I could not be prouder to support
Maya for mayor, or be more
honored to receive her endorsement
for District 26,” Bagga said.
“With our shared vision and
values, we will build a district, a
borough and a city that offers economic
opportunity to all, so that
we may all live with dignity and
build power — together.”
Van Bramer scores four
endorsements
Queens borough president
candidate Jimmy Van Bramer,
received four major worker rights’
endorsements: Retail, Wholesale
and Department Store Union
(RWDSU), Make the Road Action,
New York Communities for
Change, and Amazon Union leader
Christian Smalls.
“It’s incredible to have the
support of this powerhouse trio
of workers rights organizations:
Make the Road Action, New York
Communities for Change, and
the Retail, Wholesale and Department
Store Union,” Van Bramer
said. “We were on the front lines
fighting back against a multibillion
dollar tax giveaway to the
wealthiest, most anti-worker corporation
in the world — right here
in Queens — and together we won
with and for workers. I’ve spent
my life defending working families
like the one I came from, and
I’ll always put them first.”
BY GABRIELE HOLTERMANN
Mayoral candidate Eric Adams joined New York
City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) employees at a
rally in Queens on June 14, demanding racial and gender
pay equity.
The rally occurred as the latest poll has former Sanitation
Commissioner Kathryn Garcia running a close
second behind Adams in the race to become the 110th
mayor of New York City.
During the following Q&A, Adams addressed
claims that he was only criticizing Garcia because she
was second in the latest polls. He said that the sanitation
workers approached him when they learned that
their former boss was running for mayor.
“They reached out to me and said, ‘We need you to
highlight what is happening to us. We don’t want people
to vote for someone without knowing the record of how
she created an environment where Blacks, Hispanics
and women were treated unfairly,’” Adams explained.
Earlier this year, 13 Department of Sanitation enforcement
agents filed a claim with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the
city, alleging that women and minority employees were
subject to unequal pay at the agency and charging that
white and male employees make twice as much money
as their female and Black and Brown colleagues.
Surrounded by a group of New York’s Strongest,
representatives of other city agencies, and elected officials,
Adams called out the need to ensure equal pay in
all city agencies. He pointed out pay inequity was not
only prevalent in the DSNY but has seeped into all city
agencies.
The leading mayoral contender referred to a City
Council study conducted last year revealing that non-
Hispanic workers earn $8,700 more than Latino employees.
Black and Brown workers earn $7,600 less a year
than white workers. The analysis also showed that
male city workers earn $4,500 more than women occupying
the same position.
Calling the disparity in pay an embarrassment to
the city, Adams said that the results of this audit should
be made public “because if we don’t shed light on this,
then we’re never going to expose what it is” and called
for monthly audits.
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