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Early voting debutes Sat,. Oct. 26 at 11 Bronx polling sites
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 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;
use their assigned polling
places on Election Day;
eligible to vote by either
absentee ballot, or in person
use electronic poll books
instead of paper registration
They count on you,
• 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 affidavit
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
benefit 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 first
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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• An early voter is not
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Day;
• Early voting sites may
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