COURIER LIFE, NOV. 6-12, 2020 3
POLLS!
Here’s the breakdown
crats.
The only Brooklyn seat
currently represented by
a Republican — Assemblymember
Nicole Malliotakis’s
64th Assembly district
— had a partisan split, with
more voters favoring Biden
on the side covering a sliver
of Bay Ridge and Trump
earning the majority vote
on Staten Island, according
to BOE.
However, Tuesday’s results
are far from fi nal,
since the Elections offi cials
have yet to tally more than
100,000 returned mail-in
ballots. Offi cials will continue
to process mail-in ballots
postmarked on or before
Election Day until Nov. 9,
when the counting will begin.
The ballots will most
likely skew Democrat, perhaps
shifting the results in
some of the Trump-dominated
districts in southern
Brooklyn.
Registered Democrats
requested and returned far
more ballots in the borough
than their Republican counterparts,
so the vote-by-mail
number is likely to boost
Biden’s lead.
The Board sent out some
360,000 absentee ballots to
voters in the borough this
year, almost 107,000 of which
have been returned so far,
according to Brooklyn Paper
calculations based off of
agency fi gures by Assembly
district.
Turnout for the borough
for in-person voting in 2016
was more than 800,000, compared
to 698,000 this year,
however this year’s number
is likely to surpass the last
presidential election once
absentee votes are counted.