Early voting debutes Sat,. Oct. 26 at 11 Bronx polling sites
Chantal, 190 Hollywood Avenue;
P.S. 207, 3030 Goodwin
Terrace; Truman High
School, 750 Baychester Avenue;
Monroe College, 2501 Jerome
Avenue; St. Anthony’s
Church, 4505 Richardson Avenue;
Bronx Regional High
School, 1010 Rev. James Polite
Avenue; Bronx River Community
Center, 1619 E. 174th
Street; J.H.S. 45, 2502 Lorillard
Place; Bronx County
Court House, 851 Grand Concourse;
and Columbus High
School, 925 Astor Avenue.
The League of Women Voters
of New York State provided
the following early voting
FAQs:
• You do not need to have a
reason or excuse to vote early;
• Non-early voters must
use their assigned polling
places on Election Day;
• An early voter is not eligible
to vote by either absentee
ballot, or in person at the
polls on Election Day;
• Early voting sites may use
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Starting with the 2019 General
Election, voters in New
York will have an additional
nine days to cast a ballot.
The Democrat-controlled
New York State legislature
approved early voting during
the opening days of the 2019
legislative session. Earlier
attempts to pass the voting
reform were blocked by the
Republican-led state senate,
which lost its majority in the
2018 election.
Voters have been assigned
early voting poll sites in each
county throughout the state.
The Bronx will have 11 voting
locations offering various
hours of operation to accommodate
voters, beginning ten
days before an election. Early
voting will end the Sunday
before election day.
This year early voting is
set for Saturday, October 26 to
Sunday, November 3. Election
Day is Tuesday, November 5.
The sites will be open 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on both Saturdays
and Sundays, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
on Tuesday and Friday and 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. the other days.
The Bronx early voting
sites are: I.S. 174, 456 White
Plains Road; St. Frances de
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electronic poll books instead
of paper registration books;
• Early voters must still
have been registered to vote
by October 11, 2019;
• The ballot at the early voting
poll sites will be identical
to the November 5 ballot;
• Early vote ballots will be
counted on General Election
Day;
• If you vote early you cannot
change your ballot; and
• If your name is not in the
registry, ask for an affi davit
ballot.
While it appears that early
voting is a positive change,
there have been some negative
factors noted as well.
Early voters may lose out
on seeing a vital debate or
forum which may dramatically
affect the race; they may
learn new information about
a candidate which might have
made them change their vote;
early voters may see their
votes wasted, if a candidate
dies or resigns after they have
cast their vote; early voters
will not benefi t from recommendations
made by newspaper
editorial boards or politicians;
and early voting will
lengthen election campaigns
and likely force an increase
in candidate expenses, the opponents
of early voting warn.
Texas was the fi rst state to
approve early voting, over 30
years ago. The policy has now
spread to 39 voting jurisdictions:
38 states and the District
of Columbia. Throughout
the U.S. early voting
periods range from as much
as 45 days to as little as four
days, with the average length
of 19 days. In 2016, 17.2 percent
of all ballots were cast by
early voters.
While the purpose of
early voting is to make the
voting process more accessible,
therefore encouraging
a greater voter turnout, the
opposite has occurred, published
reports claim.
According to American
University and University of
Wisconsin studies, states that
have adopted early voting
have lower voter turnout than
the states without the policy,
the Washington Times reported.
The 2013 study found
that early voting decreased
the turnout by four percent
and the longer the early voting
period the greater the effect
on diminished turnout.
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