Pearl River: Your Ballot on Election Day

Pearl River voters will head to the polls this Tuesday, Nov. 4 for the 2014 midterm election.

On the ballot, registered voters will be able to select candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, a representative to U.S. Congress, state senator, state assembly, comptroller, attorney general, state supreme court justice, and Rockland County Court judge.

There is no election for the U.S. Senate this year in New York.

Voters will also choose ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ on one Rockland County proposal and three statewide propositions. Two are amendments to the New York State Constitution.

The county Charter Reform Proposal includes a whole list of changes, from mandating the county executive present a draft annual budget by Oct. 1 instead of Oct. 23; requiring full-time department heads to devote their full working time to the duties of their office; organizing the succession for various offices; resolutions by the county legislature pertaining only to its work would not need approval from the county executive; and more.

The first state proposition would revise how election districts are redrawn after every Census. It includes the formation of a redistricting commission that would conduct statewide public hearings and then develop a plan based on specific criteria including: contiguous and compact district boundaries, an equal number of people in each district, protection of communities of interest.

The second would allow the legislature to distribute copies of pending bills—there were 18,000 this past year, according to Assemblywoman Sandra Galef—over the Internet. Now paper copies are constitutionally mandated.

The third state proposition asks voters to OK a $2 billion bond for education. Mostly for school technology, the money could also be used for constructing and modernizing facilities and installing high-tech security.

Where Do You Vote?

Use the Rockland County Board of ElectionsPolling Place Lookup. (This article also has a polling place location finder at the bottom.)

Learn More

Check out the League of Women Voters’ New York Voters Guide - candidates or get personalized voter information at vote411.org

On the Ballot

County offices

County Court Judge

Vote for 1

Rolf Thorsen (D, WF, I, C)

Michael Koplen (R)

State Offices

Assembly District 97

Vote for 1

Ellen Jaffee (D, WF)

Robert Romanowski (R, C)

Senate District 38

Vote for 1

David Carlucci (D, WF, I)

Donna Held (R)

Attorney General

Vote for 1

John Cahill (R, C, SCC)

Ramon Jimenez (G)

Carl Person (L)

Eric Schneiderman (WF, I, WEP, D)

Comptroller

Vote for 1

Robert Antonacci (R, C, SCC)

John Clifton (L)

Thomas DiNapoli (D, WF, I, WEP)

Theresa Portelli (G)

Lieutenant Governor

Chris Edes (L)

Kathy Hochul (D, WF, I, WEP)

Brian Jones (G)

Bobby Kalotee (S)

Chris Moss (R, C, SCC)

Governor

Rob Astorino (R, C, SCC)

Steven Cohn (S)

Andrew Cuomo (D, WF, I, WEP)

Supreme Court Justice (9th Judicial District)

Montgomery Delaney (R,C)

James Hubert (D,I)

Federal Offices

Congressional District 17

Christopher Day (R,C)

Nita Lowey (D,WF)

Propositions

Rockland County

Charter Reform Proposal

New York State

Proposal One - Revising State’s Redistricting Procedure

Proposal Two - Permitting Electronic Distribution of State Legislative Bills

Proposal Three - The SMART SCHOOLS BOND ACT OF 2014