NYC early voting closes with more than a million ballots cast [View all]
Early voting has closed in New York City, with more than a million Big Apple residents casting a ballot.
Polls closed for early voters at 5 p.m. Sunday, after nine days. Just after 10:30 a.m. Sunday, the city’s Board of Elections said that a million early votes had been cast. That represents more than 20% of active registered voters in the five boroughs, according to state voter rolls.
New York legalized early voting in 2019 and put it into effect in time for the 2020 election, but many New Yorkers voted absentee in that race due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, over the past four years, voting early has become an ingrained fixture of the democratic process in the Empire State, even as many voters find themselves facing long lines.
“I think it’s very convenient in the sense that you can take your time now instead of the actual day,” said Marceline Herrera Marsalis, a resident voting at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon. “You know, Election Day is a longer line. It’s convenient, basically.”
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