Early Voting Ends With 1.1M Ballots Cast In NYC

NEW YORK CITY — The polls will open on Election Day with 1.1 million New Yorkers having already cast their ballots in person.

Nine days of early voting in the city ended over the weekend and the final tallies show voters’ enthusiasm wasn’t tamped down by long lines or rainy days.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who voiced criticism over the Board of Elections’ handling of early voting, marked the city reaching a milestone on Sunday.

“One million New Yorkers have voted early!” he tweeted.

The final tallies show Brooklyn led the boroughs in votes cast, with 373,000, according to the Board of Elections. It also had the biggest single-day haul, with nearly 49,000 votes.

The total nine-day tally for the boroughs is:

• Bronx — 153,079
• Brooklyn — 373,270
• Manhattan — 238,581
• Queens — 250,083
• Staten Island — 104,043
• Total — 1,119,056

The fourth day of early voting, Oct. 27, had the biggest turnout — 143,000 votes. That was despite days of long lines at several polling locations.

Poor weather on the sixth day apparently scared off some voters — 108,000 voted that day — but numbers bounced back for the remaining days. A rainy Sunday didn’t stop voters — the day recorded the second-largest turnout with 141,000 votes.

Tuesday is Election Day. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. Absentee voters can still drop off ballots that day as well.

Remember you can drop off your marked absentee ballot at any Early voting site or Election Day poll site on 11/3. pic.twitter.com/og0AXSPMJt
— NYCBoardOfElections (@BOENYC) November 1, 2020