Editorial: Thursday is Primary Day -- again
Angela Prizzi leaves the polling place at St. Augustine's in New CIty after having voted in the Republican Primary. (June 26, 2012) Credit: Jim Alcorn
There's a primary election tomorrow. No, really. It's time to go to the polls again, this time to vote in a smattering of state legislative and judicial races.
If you have that deja vu all over again feeling, you're not wrong. Thursday will be the third Primary Day in the state this year. The presidential primary was April 24, followed by the congressional primary on June 26.
There are reasons the state has primaries on three days, but no acceptable justification. There should be one every four years in April to choose presidential convention delegates and one each June for federal, state and local offices. Period. But it is what it is this year, compounded by the oddity of voting on a Thursday to avoid going to the polls on 9/11.
In Nassau County there is a Republican primary in the 9th Assembly District, which crosses into Suffolk County; Democratic and Working Families Party primaries in the 22nd Assembly District, and 22 judicial candidates vying for 12 spots on the Independence Party line.
In Suffolk County there are Democratic primaries in State Senate District 1 and Assembly District 6. Voters have an opportunity to write in a Working Families Party candidate in the 10th Assembly District. And in a race for District Court Judge in the 4th Judicial District in Smithtown, three candidates are vying for the Conservative and Independence party lines.
This is an unusually arduous primary season, but it's still worth the effort to vote.
