NEW YORK - New York City’s first primary election during the coronavirus pandemic is taking place Tuesday, with several tightly contested House races on the line as hundreds of thousands of people in the state have already cast ballots via absentee.
Polls are open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in New York City for those voting in person. Early voting ended Sunday.
If you requested an absentee ballot, it’ll be counted as long as it’s postmarked by today. It must reach the city Board of Elections within seven days.
Voters are required to wear a face covering when casting their ballot. Social-distancing markers will remind people to keep at least six feet apart at the poll sites.
Poll workers are disinfecting when and where they can, and voters will get an antiviral handwipe at the poll site entrance.
Screen guards have been installed at poll sites to protect voters and poll workers from the spread of the coronavirus. And the Board of Elections mandated that each polling location was professionally cleaned overnight.
All seats in the U.S. House are up for election, as well as all seats in New York State Senate and Assembly. There’s also a primary for Queens borough president.
New Yorkers can vote in the presidential primary, although it’s a formality since former Vice President Joe Biden has already clinched enough delegates for the Democratic nomination.
Depending on where you live, you may have smaller races as well, such as municipal court.
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Results in some races may not be known for days or weeks because of the large volume of absentee ballots that have to be counted by hand.
The BOE said last week it has processed about 550,000 absentee ballots this cycle compared to 65,000 in the primaries four years ago.
Even more ballots were sent out in recent days, but the board didn’t have a total as of Monday.
Arguably the tightest race in the New York City primaries is the 15th Congressional District in the Bronx, where Rep. José Serrano is retiring at the end of the year. 12 Democrats are running to replace him, including several progressives such as Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake, former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, and activist Samelys López. But Bronx Councilman Rubén Díaz, Sr., a socially conservative Democrat with wide name recognition in the borough, could end up winning if the progressives split the vote.
Democratic challengers are vying to ride a progressive wave in recent years to oust several longtime House incumbents in the city.
Just north of the 15th Congressional District, in the 16th Congressional District, a district on the Bronx and Westchester border, 31-year House Member Eliot Engel is locked in a tight race against insurgent Jamaal Bowman.
Bowman — viewed as a challenger who could mimic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win two years ago against former titan Rep. Joe Crowley — has been endorsed by several high-profile progressive politicians and groups, including Ocasio-Cortez, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Justice Democrats, and the Sunrise Movement.
In response, many establishment Democrats have endorsed Engel, including former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Engel has been under fire for his sparse appearances in the district during the coronavirus pandemic, and for this remark caught on a microphone when he was seeking to speak at a news conference in the Bronx earlier this month: “If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care.”
Reps. Jerry Nadler, Carolyn Maloney, and Yvette Clarke, who have all been in Congress for over 10 years and rarely face primary challengers, are all facing challengers to their left as well.
The candidates that win their primaries move on to the general election in November. In a heavily-Democratic city, many of the primary winners are expected to in the general election, making Primary Day the most impactful election day for local races this year.
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