{"id":19081,"date":"2025-10-27T22:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19081\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:09:06","slug":"more-than-250000-vote-in-first-weekend-of-n-y-early-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19081\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 250,000 vote in first weekend of N.Y. early voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250,000 people took part in the first weekend of early voting for general elections in New York state, according to state Board of Elections numbers.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, 258,553 state residents voted early on Saturday and Sunday, with 79,409 on day one and 84,781 on day two.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60% of those\u00a0\u2014 164,190 \u2014 came from New York City voters, who are deciding the next mayor there in a high-profile race watched nationally. About 94,363 came from voters in the other parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>In upstate&#8217;s more populous counties, 7,060 people have voted early in Erie County; 5,552 voted early in Monroe County; 3,712 voted early in Albany County and 3,197 voted early in Onondaga County.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible voters in New York can participate in early voting through Sunday, Nov. 2. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 4. In 2023, the last off-year election, more than 231,000 people <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2023\/11\/03\/more-than-231k-vote-early-so-far-in-new-york-2023-elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted early during the entire window it was available.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early voting first came into practice in New York in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 250,000 people took part in the first weekend of early voting for general elections in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,116,257,111,270,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,87,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-19081","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-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-decision-2025","12":"tag-luke-parsnow","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-new-york-state","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081","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=19081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}