NEW YORK – One million New Yorkers cast their votes in the first five days of early voting, state election officials said Wednesday, but many of the votes were not without problems. People across the state have been enduring wait times of up to several hours to cast their votes since early voting began on … Read more
NEW YORK – Clashes between supporters and opponents of President Trump broke out after a caravan of hundreds of trucks of Jews by Trump traveled through Manhattan and Brooklyn with banners of the president and American flags on Sunday afternoon. The caravan traveled from Coney Island to Trump Tower in Manhattan before heading to a … Read more
NEW YORK – New Yorkers lined up to vote early in recent days, many waiting under umbrellas, after a weekend that saw a crowd of more than 400,000 voters across the state. State election officials said 422,169 people voted on Saturday and Sunday, the first two days of early voting in New York. The unofficial … Read more
NEW YORK – A cyberattack on an upstate New York county computer system raised concerns that some absentee ballot requests, sent by email, might not be processed, but the state Board of Elections said that voting will not be affected in general. The Oct. 18 cyberattack encrypted about 200 computers operated by Chenango County and … Read more
NEW YORK – Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined the long voting lines in New York on the second day of early voting. The congresswoman, who represents the 14th district of New York City, which includes parts of the Bronx and Queens, showed in an Instagram video how she waited in line to vote at one of … Read more
What you should know The New York City Board of Elections announced that during the first two days of early voting, 193,915 have voted in New York City. The first time an early vote was held in New York was in 2019 for the general election. Early voting will continue until November 1 and then … Read more
NEW YORK – As New Yorkers visit their closest early voting centers, the city hall unveiled a new plan to keep elections and voters safer by exercising their right to vote. Entitled as the New York City Election Observer Corps, its purpose is to monitor polling sites in all five boroughs to ensure that voters … Read more
The Pew estimates that one in ten people who qualify to vote this year are immigrants. And the majority (61%) of these 23 million naturalized citizens live in just five states, according to a report published in March. California accumulates the most (5.5 million) of any other state, more than New York (2.5 million) and … Read more
NEW YORK – Elections are just around the corner and the New York City Police (NYPD) announced a plan Tuesday to provide security for New Yorkers during these dates. “We consider voting as a civil right of each person. The NYPD is going to make sure every New Yorker is safe during voting, ”said Department … Read more