DEMOCRACY  
 Early voting kicks off in BK with  
 Voters wait outside Barclays Center to cast their vote in the 2020 election.  Photo by Lloyd Mitchell 
 Thousands of Brooklynites vote early  
 BY ROBERT POZARYCKI 
 They  came.  They  saw.  
 They voted early. 
 Thousands  of  New  Yorkers  
 assembled  long  lines  at  
 88  sites  across  the  fi ve  boroughs  
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 COURIER L 4     IFE, OCT. 30-NOV. 5, 2020 
 on Oct. 24 to cast their  
 ballots  in  the 2020 presidential  
 election on  the fi rst day  
 of early voting. 
 Lines ran for blocks in  
 many places as voters of ages,  
 colors and creeds gathered  
 to  make  their  voices  heard  
 in the all-important election  
 between the Republican incumbent  
 ticket of President  
 Donald Trump and Vice President  
 Mike Pence against the  
 Democratic  duo  of  former  
 Vice President Joe Biden and  
 California  Senator  Kamala  
 Harris. 
 There are plenty of other  
 races across the city for Congress, 
  Assembly and state  
 Senate, including the heated  
 11th Congressional District  
 race  between  incumbent  
 Democratic  Congressman  
 Max Rose and his challenger,  
 Republican Assemblywoman  
 Nicole Malliotakis, for the  
 seat  covering  southwestern  
 Brooklyn and Staten Island. 
 Not long after polls closed  
 at 4 pm Saturday, the city’s  
 Board of Elections announced  
 that 93,830 New Yorkers had  
 voted that day — far exceeding  
 the 60,110 early voters during  
 the entire 2019 fall election cycle, 
  in which few competitive  
 races were on the ballot. 
 On average, each early voting  
 site  on Oct.  24  had  about  
 1,066 voters show up between  
 10 am and 4 pm — or about 178  
 voters per hour of operation. 
 Brooklyn had the most  
 early voters in the city on the  
 fi rst day of early voting, with  
 29,411,  followed  by  Manhattan  
 with 19,877; Queens with  
 19,223; the Bronx with 14,928;  
 and Staten Island with 10,391. 
 Since then, Brooklyn has  
 continued to take the lead.  
 As  of  Wednesday  morning,  
 a whopping 149,368 Brooklynites  
 had cast an early vote.  
 Citywide,  more  than  450,000  
 New Yorkers had voted early  
 as of Wednesday. 
 Saturday marked the fi rst  
 time New Yorkers got a chance  
 to vote early in a presidential  
 election. They join the more  
 than  50  million  Americans  
 who have already cast votes in  
 the race in other states where  
 early voting is available.  
 There were plenty of  lines  
 to get into polling sites across  
 Brooklyn,  including  at  Barclays  
 Center, home of the  
 Brooklyn Nets. Voters lined  
 up for more than a block to get  
 into the arena and cast their  
 ballots as the Brooklyn United  
 Marching Band treated those  
 in queue to an impromptu performance. 
 From  downtown  to  Bay  
 Ridge to Cypress Hills, the  
 voters came in droves — waiting  
 it out for the opportunity  
 to make their voices heard. 
 “This is the most important  
 election  of  my  lifetime,”  
 said one voter at Barclays, Jacob  
 Silver.  
 Another voter, James Lawson, 
  put the importance of the  
 election  bluntly:  “Our  future  
 is at stake here.” 
 “This election is critical  
 for everything from the environment  
 to schooling,” Lawson  
 said. “We must right the  
 ship.” 
 Visit www.vote.nyc for additional  
 important information  
 on voting. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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