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Path to the Polls
When I received from the New York City Board of Elections my application for an absentee ballot, I mailed it back the next day, along with my wife's. Four days from Primary Day, we have yet to get our ballots. So, I'll either bike a couple miles to my early voting site later today, tomorrow or Sunday, or wait until Tuesday and walk around the corner to my regular polling place.
None of the races in my district have generated any buzz—a low-wattage Congressional primary, a judicial race and a district leader contest, as well as the anti-climactic presidential primary. But that makes participating that much more important, since turnout could be abysmally low. And if there were ever any doubts about the importance of political leadership to health and basic human dignity, the last couple months ought to have cleared it up.
It's too late to apply for an absentee ballot now. If you did apply and you do receive it, you must mail it by Primary Day. Otherwise you can vote early through Sunday at one of the early voting sites—they are fewer and further between than the regular voting places—or you can vote in person between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Primary Day at your usual polling place.
For information on where to vote early or on Primary Day, use the Board of Elections address-search tool.
For information on many of the candidates who are running, check out the City Limits/Gotham Gazette/WNYC/Gothamist voters' guide.
A little info about the judicial candidates is here. And our coverage of some of the Congressional races is worth a read.
Whichever way you vote, let us know what you think of the experience. But, yes, vote.
Jarrett Murphy
executive editor
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