New York votes after primary season like no other
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A primary election season like no other will reach its conclusion Tuesday, as New Yorkers pick their candidates for congress, president and other offices following campaigns in which candidates largely had to connect with voters online amid a pandemic.
With the state allowing anyone to vote by absentee ballot rather than risk getting exposed to the coronavirus at a polling location, the process of collecting and counting votes will be different this year.
About 1.8 million people requested absentee ballots by mid-June and have until Tuesday to postmark them, according to elections officials.
Voting locations across the state will be open, but upstate there will be about 3,000 fewer of them than in a normal year due to the difficulties of maintaining socially distant polling precincts and expectations that more people will vote by mail.
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