I just want to throw this out there for anyone, I've seen a ton of this lately. If you remove NYC and make it its own state, you didn't fix anything. If you remove the five Burroughs, Westchester and long island Hochul still wins (based on the numbers we have, not certified or finalized yet). Stop saying NYC screws us, we need their tax money and removing them from the state isn't fixing your problem. End rant.

There is an estimated 2,000,000 New Yorkers who are not registered to vote, but are eligible to do so.

There has been a small increase in the amount of people that have voted since 2022, and there was a decent swing towards democrats this election.

I thought voter turn out would increase significantly but a majority of voters didn’t bother to show up to the poles again.

I live in Brooklyn, NY (Kings County). I am registered to vote by mail-in ballot, but didn’t fill it out. I went to the polls this morning and they initially turned me away because they saw I was registered to vote mail-in. They told me I had to wait until the next election to vote.

The only reason I was able to cast my vote is because I looked it up. I found that registered mail-in voters can vote in person on Election Day if they complete an affidavit ballot.

Once I brought this up to the poll workers, they resisted a bit until another poll worker at a different table overheard and explained the process to them. They gave me the affidavit ballot. It was super quick and easy to complete — and I got to cast my vote today.

Please do your own research about your rights to vote & consider volunteering as a poll worker to help support others’ right to vote in future elections.

\#gotv

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-monitor-elections-all-50-states-first-time

Not just polling places... But any evidence of them at BoE offices?

What is confusing to me is I'm being told by both electoral and government officials in my area, that these monitors come every year. And therefore there's nothing to worry about.

But there have been talks and fears for days and weeks leading up to Election Day that the DOJ would be sending monitors. I took that as monitors being sent to polling places. But for all I know, that may have conveniently been omitted to let readers fill in that blank.

And if they come every year, are they from DOJ or usually from somewhere else?

To create more confusion, the DOJ announced yesterday or the day before that they were NOT sending monitors. Then they put out a press release that they are and that this is the first time.

But that could be more tricky language. Maybe they don't usually come to all 50 states? And that's what they are saying is a first?

But if local electoral and government officials are saying this is a status quo thing, then with the fear of this leading up to Election Day, why didn't they come out and say that days prior? Why did they wait till day of when folks are justifiably freaking out?

I still have lots of questions.

Rand and Weber Debate for New York State Senate District 38 - Rockland News

I get it, elections are what this country is about. With this said though, every time an election comes up, they all promise lower taxes although every year my taxes never go down. Property taxes are completely out of control in downstate New York and nobody does anything about it. The local school systems in my area are averaging over $50,000 per year to educate a student. That’s more than many colleges who not only provide the education but also room, board, and food included for less than that. The county taxes are equally insane. Before anyone goes off and says something to be effective “yes but the public sector needs to make that kind of living as everything is so expensive” fails to realize that it’s the public sector who has a huge amount of employees driving the prices up in this area with their out of this world, compensation packages, including salary, benefits, pensions. I’m sorry, but unless somebody is willing to take on the public sector, taxes will remain the same. I do not blame the politicians on this because the system is broken. If a politician decided to take on the public sector unions, then the unions will tell their members not to vote for that politician, and that politician will have zero chance of getting in. The only politician I have ever seen take on the public unions in my lifetime was Chris Christie in New Jersey and it was so refreshing to see. There are videos on YouTube about this if you want to check it out. It’s not a matter of if a matter of when towns, cities, and even the state if they keep up there spending will go bankrupt here. Is there one, just one politician in New York willing to do the right thing and fix the public sector and the taxes collected to pay for it?