Little more than 12% of total registered Democrats and Republicans in New York City cast a ballot in June's primary election. Election experts anticipate turnout for August's primary for congressional and state Senate races to be weaker.
turnout as a result of these systems. New York state had a similar program in the last two years due to COVID, but it served as a temporary measure.Weinberg of Citizens Union said election reforms can be pushed further, pointing to theas a way of increasing turnout. Similar to no-excuse mail-in voting, that measure was put forth before voters last year and failed.
Higher turnout, it seemed, was an anomaly during the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary, when acrimony toward the presidency of Donald Trump, resentment toward a group of breakaway state Senators comprised of the Independent Democratic Conference, and a contentious race between Cuomo and progressive candidate Cynthia Nixon attracted 900,742 New York City residents to vote.. The 2018 primary took place in September, the last cycle before it was consolidated with the June primary.
“I felt whoever won on the Republican side wasn’t going to win anyway, so I felt there was no point in voting,” Revson, who plans on casting a ballot.
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