NEW YORK — Voter turnout in New York City primary elections is often tragically low, but that doesn’t mean these contests are unimportant. In fact, local elections like the one on Tuesday have the biggest impact on the daily lives of voters.
On June 27, New Yorkers who are registered to vote will be able to choose their preferences for City Council members and District Attorneys. Because New York uses closed primaries, only registered members of the party can cast their ballots.
Here’s what you need to know before heading to the polls:
Where I vote?
Registered voters in New York may use this tool to find your polling place.
Those in New York City can go here.
Since COVID-19, New York has made it so everyone in the state can request an absentee ballot. The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot application by letter, fax or through the absentee ballot request portal. But if you can’t make it to the polls on Tuesday, Monday June 26 is the last day to request an absentee ballot in person.
Tuesday is also the deadline to get your absentee ballot stamped or hand-delivered to a polling place in your county.
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What’s on the ballot today?
City Council
District Attorney
Civil Court
Delegates to the Judicial Convention
County Committee
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What time do the polls open?
Polls are open everywhere from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm
What’s on my ballot?
City Council
New York City residents will have to use ranked-choice voting to select city council members in order of preference. There are 51 wards in five boroughs and an elected council member will represent their ward by introducing and voting on legislation, such as whether to make cookouts seasonal or whether the city can use empty hotels to house immigrants.
New York City City Council terms normally last four years, but due to a quirk in the New York City charter, the 2021 and 2023 City Council races are for two-year terms only. Election for four-year terms on the City Council will resume in 2025.
One of the main races to watch out for is in downtown Harlem. Three Democrats are facing off to replace District 9 Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan, a first-term incumbent who announced in May she would not seek re-election after narrowly winning the seat in 2021, but her name is still on the ballot. electoral ticket. Vying to replace her are state Assemblymembers Inez Dickens and Al Taylor and criminal justice reform activist Yusef Salaam, who was one of five men convicted and later exonerated in the “Central Park Jogger” rape case.
District Attorneys
Residents of the Bronx and Queens will be able to vote in the district attorney primary, which will not use ranked-choice voting.
In the Bronx, incumbent district attorney Darcel Clark is seeking a third term. He faces a challenge from criminal defense and civil rights attorney Tess Cohen. In Queens, incumbent Melinda Katz is seeking a second term as district attorney. The three-way primary also includes public defender Devian Daniels and former judge and former deputy police commissioner George Grasso. Both Clark and Katz are the first women to hold those positions.
Judges of Civil Courts
City court judges are elected to 10-year terms and hear civil court matters up to $50,000, including landlord-tenant issues, and also hear criminal matters such as misdemeanors.
Delegates to the Judicial Convention and Alternates
New Yorkers will vote for various representatives (the number will be dictated on the ballot) who will then vote to nominate justices for the New York State Supreme Court. Voters will be able to vote for those judges in the general election. The selected judges will appear on voters’ ballots in the general election, with the winner serving a 14-year term.
What is ranked choice voting?
The method gives voters the option of ranking candidates on the ballot in order of preference (one for their first choice, two for their second choice, etc.) instead of casting a single vote for one person.
If a candidate gets more than 50% of the first choice votes, they are declared the winner. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated. Ballots listing the eliminated candidate as the first choice are then reallocated to the candidate listed as the voters’ second choice. This process continues until a candidate gets more than 50% of the adjusted core votes.
The voting process is especially useful for avoiding costly runoff elections in very close contests where the winning candidate often gets no more than 50% of the vote.
What if I am not registered to vote?
In New York, you can register to vote online: Click here to access the online registration portal.
The primary election registration deadline has passed (June 17), but you can register now to vote in the November general election.
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