New York State Board of Elections

As far as registering to vote by mail, a board of elections must receive applications by tomorrow in order for you to vote in the general election.

And of course, for more details, we have a link to the New York Board of Elections website at ABC7NY.

It is now 540 lawmakers in Brooklyn are trying to determine what's causing a gasoline odor that's been plaguing parts of southern Brooklyn, particularly in Sheepshead Bay.

Residents say that they noticed the odor in late August.

And although the intent was also to help local elections update their practices and equipment, the act didn't actually require any changes below the federal level.

The New York State Board of Elections says on its website that New York has developed a plan to implement its provisions and access the federal funds needed to ensure compliance.

The local government did not, you know, they're not smart enough to go, you know what, we really want people to vote and since the Help America Vote Act, we should probably address this to the local over and get accessible machines.

You think they would do that? No, they wouldn't do that.

I'm going to let the process play its way out there.

I will tell you that I immediately, on Monday, after learning about it over the weekend, but also receiving some pieces of mail that were returned to the board on Monday, filed a complaint with the New York State Board of Elections as well as the New York State Attorney General.

I'm sure other people will be following up with complaints as well.

Let me reassure you and the public that the Board of Elections will never send out a letter with partisan pieces inside of it urging you to vote for one candidate or another or urging you to vote for any issue over another.

And filed by means the postmark is good.

Received by means it actually physically has to be in the Board of Elections hands.

So for online voter registration, and the online portal going through the New York State Board of Elections website, which you can reach at onvote.net. You can register to vote and also request a vote-by-mail absentee ballot right up until midnight on Election Day.

or on the Golden Day, not Election Day.

And my goodness, I hope that is all of you out there.

Today, Monday, October 19th, is the deadline for the Suffolk County Board of Elections to receive a voter's address change for processing and time for the general election, according to the New York State Board of Elections calendar.

Voters can update their address through the state's online voter registration system or by submitting a voter registration form.

You can check your voter registration information at voterlookup.elections.ny.gov. That also provides your polling place information and mail ballot tracking.

And, um, it's actually the, the model that Project Civica follows is, is it's the perfect example of it that, um, you know, citizens can produce and by working together, uh, produce some consequential, uh, information.

Our noncitizen report that you were talking about in the previous segment, um, Open Doors, uh, that report we used the data in an, um, amicus brief in the Department of Justice's lawsuit against New York State Board of Elections over the voter rolls because New York State has refused to give the DOJ, Department of Justice, um, the voter rolls.

And, um, we used the, the citizenship data that we found that we were just talking about in, um, a legal brief that was filed, um, in, uh, federal court at the, uh, appellate, I believe it's the, the next level up, not the lower court, but the appeals level.

So, um, you know, the information is consequential and, uh, we've got some, you know, new numbers.

And, um, you were mentioning, um, one of our reports, uh, Red Flags.

I mean, we believe based on all the information that we have investigated that New York State is not in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act or the Help America Vote Act.

Um, so, you know, that, that, that's, you know, that's the struggle that we've got right now in that one lawsuit that I was mentioning with the DOJ and the New York State Board of Elections of the voter rolls.

Uh, you know, that probably will end up in, [clears throat] excuse me, in the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court will have to decide the answer to that one.

You hit that.

And then it brings you to the New York State Board of Elections website.

That's where all of our portal requests go through.

And you'll have options.

There's two boxes.

One of them is confirming that I checked the box.

I consent to the New York State Board of Elections using my digital signature.

And then the next box is I'm certifying that I am this voter and that I'm qualified and registered for the primary.

This is my handy dandy tablet here.

And you can get right down to the Onondaga County Board of Elections website at onvote.net. Now everything I'm gonna show you today is actually from the State Board of Elections, the New York State Board of Elections.

We just happen to have these links right on our front page to make it easier for you as a voter to access that information.

And, you know, it's all one stop.

We have, what is that? oh and I we're gonna look at this button too the register to vote button we're gonna look at that one um and also then we also have sample balance and early voting information all right here these six buttons are the things that most of people come to our website for there's a lot of other menus up here that you can uh take a look at but first thing we're going to do is the Check your voter registration because we're going to check my voter registration right now in live here.

So we're going to check that right now.

So once you hit that button, it goes to this New York State Board of Elections form.

And it's pretty easy to fill out.