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It is no different than early voting at a vote center (where I live at least). You go in, give them your ID, sign the log, and then they pull up your record and print out the ballot for the relevant elections that apply to you (bonds, school board etc). You fill in the spaces to vote, feed it into the tabulator, and voila!. Tech. Almost everyone here, though, votes by mail and those ballots are already "personalized". IDK if NY does that. Probably not. The eastern US does not seem to embrace mail voting like the west does.
No Voter ID here, so you do not have to present id to get the ballot. You just show up, say your name, and they give you the ballot. Most of the time you don't even have to say your name, they just tell you to look for your name and sign in yourself.
Bring in busloads of Republicans from other states then. Play by the Dem rules.
You have to be registered first though. If you can get mass registered to vote in NY from China (or somehow get on the voter rolls) it would work and I think would technically be completely legal if you spend more than 30 days in NYC. I highly doubt though as a foreigner you'd care about legality, since you can just vote and move back to your country.
Local Elections are not on the same ballot as national or even state ones.
You would be wrong if you're talking everywhere.
In Maryland all offices up for election are on the same ballot. Next year, where I am, will be US House, Senator, State Senate, State House of Delegates, County Commissioners, Sheriff, State's Attorney, County Treasurer, County Register of Wills, Clerk of Courts, Orphan's Court Judges and any municipal elections being held.
In Maryland all offices up for election are on the same ballot. Next year, where I am, will be US House, Senator, State Senate, State House of Delegates, County Commissioners, Sheriff, State's Attorney, County Treasurer, County Register of Wills, Clerk of Courts, Orphan's Court Judges and any municipal elections being held.
I think he is right with NY though. I remember Fed and State being on the same ballot, but local are on a different one.
Great idea!!! I'll bet they never thought of that?
I think it would just be too expensive/impractical to accomplish with foreigners legally.
You would have to book a two way flight for each person into NYC a month before election day on legal visas. I think if CCP (or someone else) wanted to sway a local election legally and they are willing to spend like a million dollars, they could certainly do so in theory, especially since local elections in NYC have extremely low turnout (I think one of the lowest in the country or something).
Alternatively, if you do not care about the legality, you'd have to have multiple people show up and cast multiple votes. Technically you would be able to get away with it initially at least, unless they actually check or conduct an audit after the election.
In Maryland all offices up for election are on the same ballot. Next year, where I am, will be US House, Senator, State Senate, State House of Delegates, County Commissioners, Sheriff, State's Attorney, County Treasurer, County Register of Wills, Clerk of Courts, Orphan's Court Judges and any municipal elections being held.
I'm referring to NY. For example last November in NYC the elections were for Mayor, city council, Borough President, etc. Where I am in Nassau County, it was for County Exec, County Legislature, Town Supervisor, Town clerk, etc. There were no Federal or State level races.
This year we will have races for Federal and statewide positions, such as Congress, Senate, Governor, State AG, State Senate, State Assembly, etc, but there will be no local elections.
I'm referring to NY. For example last November in NYC the elections were for Mayor, city council, Borough President, etc. Where I am in Nassau County, it was for County Exec, County Legislature, Town Supervisor, Town clerk, etc. There were no Federal or State level races.
This year we will have races for Federal and statewide positions, such as Congress, Senate, Governor, State AG, State Senate, State Assembly, etc, but there will be no local elections.
I figured, but this is in the general Politics section and you know there will be those on both sides who won't get that.
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