What you need to know for Election Day

Election Day polling sites, employing a new electronic voting system that replaces lever machines, will be open Tuesday from 6 a.m. until 9 p.m.

Voters will be asked to cast ballots for governor, attorney general, comptroller, both U.S. Senate seats, five local congressional seats and a total of 30 seats in the Assembly and State Senate. There also are judicial contests and several town races in Nassau and Suffolk.

In Brookhaven, Shelter Island, Hempstead Village and the City of Glen Cove there also are ballot propositions. Voters will find those propositions on the back of the paper ballots.

Voters wanting to become familiar with the new voting system, which requires marking a paper ballot and putting it through an electronic scanner, may go online to NassauVotes.com or SuffolkVotes.com for instructional videos.

Because print on the crowded ballot is so small, election officials in both counties have purchased 10,000 magnifying glasses to aid voters in reading the ballot.

Voters seeking information about their voting status or polling place, or who have other questions, may call their county board of election - in Suffolk at 631-852-4500 or in Nassau at 516-571-2411.