{"id":102478,"date":"2020-10-31T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/3-million-new-yorkers-have-cast-ballots-in-early-voting\/"},"modified":"2020-10-31T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:53:11","slug":"3-million-new-yorkers-have-cast-ballots-in-early-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/3-million-new-yorkers-have-cast-ballots-in-early-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 million New Yorkers have cast ballots in early voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#3 million New Yorkers have cast ballots in early voting<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n After a week of hours-long waits at polling sites, some New York voters got creative Saturday.<\/p>\n

Upper East Side resident Michael Galasso, 52, shelled out $65 to a line sitter who got to the Robert Wagner Middle School at 3:30 a.m. and secured the first spot. Galasso, who had tried twice to vote earlier in the week, arrived at 6:30 a.m., a half-hour ahead of the doors opening at the East 76th Street school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prior two attempts, you know, the line was around the block twice and there was an overflow on Second Avenue,\u201d said Galasso, who works in finance and was voting for President Trump.<\/p>\n

This is the first time New Yorkers have been able to vote early in person for a presidential contest and 3 million statewide have voted \u2014 1.97 million people cast ballots through Friday, according to a report<\/a>, and slightly more than 1 million submitted an absentee ballot as of Tuesday. In New York City alone, 977,763 residents had voted in person through Saturday, the Board of Elections tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrived at the middle school about 7:30 a.m. wearing a sport coat and American flag mask. He entered through an exit door and dodged the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey brought him in quietly. He didn\u2019t shake hands or anything,\u201d a poll worker said. \u201cHe was just in and out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rudy Giuliani emerges after voting at the Robert Wagner Middle School today.<\/span>Dan Herrick<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Giuliani, who is Trump\u2019s personal lawyer, voted with an affidavit ballot, the worker said. The ballots are typically used when a voter\u2019s information cannot be found.<\/p>\n

The Board of Elections assigned more than 100,000 voters to the Upper East Side school, which was overwhelmed. There was a line of about 100 people waiting to enter Saturday morning before the polls opened, but it moved swiftly once voting began.<\/p>\n

The BOE extended early voting hours after crowds swarmed polling sites last weekend when voting hours had been limited to 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Polls close at 5 p.m. Saturday and open at 7 a.m. Sunday when voting will last until 4 p.m. Election Day voting will begin at 6 a.m. Tuesday. There will be no voting at polls on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\n Early Voters line up outside the Robert Wagner Middle School in Manhattan. <\/p>\n

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\n A person handing out “I Voted” stickers at the polls. <\/p>\n

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