{"id":16374,"date":"2025-10-25T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16374\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:02:08","slug":"early-voting-begins-across-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16374\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting begins across the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday marked the first day of early voting in the city, and New Yorkers across the five boroughs cast their ballots for mayor, comptroller and public advocate, among other races.<\/p>\n<p>Polls are open every day until Sunday, Nov. 2, then reopen for Election Day on Nov. 4. Find a full schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2025\/10\/06\/voting-early-and-by-mail--what-you-need-to-know-november-general-election-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Saturday marked the first day of early voting in the city, and New Yorkers across the five boroughs cast their ballots for mayor, comptroller and public advocate, among other races<br \/>\n<br \/>Polls are open every day until Sunday, Nov. 2, then reopen for Election Day on Nov. 4. Find a full schedule\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2025\/10\/06\/voting-early-and-by-mail--what-you-need-to-know-november-general-election-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>For the June primary, more than 34% of New Yorkers voted early in-person. Almost 4% voted early by mail and nearly 57% voted in person on Election Day<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers who vote early can snag a special sticker \u2014 each borough has its own unique design<\/p>\n<p>For the June primary, more than 34% of New Yorkers voted early in-person. Almost 4% voted early by mail and nearly 57% voted in person on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we try and stuff all of the people who want to vote into 16 hours on Election Day, it creates long lines. And if there is any unexpected problem with the equipment or the ballot, there\u2019s no time to fix it. But if a problem arises during early voting, well you can come back another day,\u201c said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause, a nonpartisan group encouraging New Yorkers to get to the polls early.<\/p>\n<p>At Fort Hamilton High School\u2019s polling place in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, voters lined up ahead of the 9 a.m. opening time to make sure they were some of the first to cast their ballots citywide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI waited in those lines they are long. The earlier you get here the better,\u201d Riad Morrar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to get it over with, and you never know what the weather is going to be like by the end of the week. It\u2019s important, this is an important vote,\u201d Linda, a local resident, said.<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers who vote early can snag a special sticker \u2014 each borough has its own unique design.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Early_Voting_Stickers_recut_VO.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"(NYC Board of Elections)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(NYC Board of Elections)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a special Halloween-themed sticker for those who vote on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Halloween_Early_Voting_Sticker.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"(NYC Board of Elections)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(NYC Board of Elections)<\/p>\n<p>Polling sites for early voting and Election Day may be different. Find yours\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vote.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday marked the first day of early voting in the city, and New Yorkers across the five boroughs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,114,25,111,9,24,12,56,108,63,65,64,1174,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-16374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-local-elections","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-decision-2025","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-headlines","19":"tag-nyc-news","20":"tag-olivia-leach","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}