Early voting to end Sunday on Long Island
Voters cast their ballots during early voting in Westbury. Credit: Linda Rosier
Early voting ends Sunday at 6 p.m. on Long Island, where voters have already cast roughly 287,000 ballots over the past seven days, according to unofficial tallies from the New York State Board of Elections.
Voters in both counties can still cast their ballots on Saturday until 6 p.m. Early voting picks up again on Sunday at 9 a.m. in Nassau County and at 10 a.m. in Suffolk. Registered voters can find early voting sites using the state’s election portal online.
The early voting period began islandwide on Oct. 24. The most recent state data shows Long Islanders had cast 286,908 early ballots as of 8 p.m. on Friday, including about 148,000 in Nassau County and another roughly 139,000 in Suffolk County.
In Nassau County, Democrats have outnumbered Republicans in early voting since at least Monday, Newsday previously reported.
As of noon Saturday, Nassau Democrats had cast about 66,000 early ballots — roughly 42% of the total tally — while Republicans had cast slightly more than 56,000 votes, representing 36% of the early ballots, according to the county election officials.
Voters who weren’t linked to a party cast about 20% of the total in Nassau County, while two smaller parties accounted for the remaining votes.
Suffolk County election officials did not respond to Newsday’s request for a breakdown of early votes cast by party.
Voters who miss the early voting period can still cast a ballot on Election Day, which is Tuesday.
The outcome will determine whether Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul keeps her seat, or is ousted by Republican Bruce Blakeman, the current Nassau County executive. There are also federal congressional races on this year’s ticket, as well as state and local contests.
Sam Kmack covers the Town of Islip for Newsday. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and previously worked as a city watchdog reporter in the Phoenix metro area, as well as an investigative journalist at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
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