It's Election Day—Make Sure To Vote

Photograph by Jen Chung/Gothamist

It's Election Day and polls in NYC have been open since 6 a.m. and will close at 9 p.m. You can find your polling site here.

The citywide matchups today are the mayoral, Public Advocate, and City Comptroller races. In the Public Advocate and City Comptroller races, the Democrats are expected to win handily—Bill DeBlasio over Republican Alex Zablocki for Advocate, John Liu over Republican Joseph Mendola for Comptroller—due to NYC's large majority of Democratic voters, but in the mayoral race, incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to win over City Comptroller William Thompson—the only question is by how much, as polls have him leaving by double digits (though in one poll, Bloomberg's lead has diminished from 15 points to 12 points).

And we can say this much: The polling site we went to at 7:20 a.m. was pretty quiet—it's no November 4, 2008.

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By Jen Chung in News on November 3, 2009 8:16 AM

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Not Your Sweetie

Voted for Thompson and waiting to see how Much Bloomie spent per vote (it was $100 last election).

No one can judge Thompson campaign when his own party hung him out to dry against 100+ million. I'm still not betting on the buying of this election - Bloomberg had less and less voters each election.

potsmoker

still trying to figure out why if bloomberg is so awesome for nyc shouldnt he spend $0 on advertising.

djwerdna

Not a peep about election reform this year from the media...

Bloomberg outspent Thompson 17 to 1. I guess he needs to make sure that his tinkering with the term limit law paid off?

Armchair_warrior

i hope current mayor wins, i hate both parties!

hotstepper

that makes no sense, he's been in each party.

felixthecat2

My vote isn't for sale. I gave bloomberg the finger and voted for Billy Thompson this morning. Line was quite short. Most of them were seniors who don't vote for change and don't really care for progress for the next generation. I told my granny to vote for Thompson.

yincrash

are there any good resources on candidates that aren't mayor / advocate / comptroller? I didn't even know what candidates were running for city council :(

REALITY CHECK

This is a much better guide: Guide for the Last Minute Voter by the Gotham Gazette.

Blue387

Try the voter guide from the campaign finance board:

http://www.nyccfb.info/public/voter-guide/general_2009/

hotstepper

money talks, thompson walks.

jeress

So, what's the rationale behind Bloomberg appearing twice on the ballot? i.e. under independent and republican?

mellow_fellow

That's the Independence Party. It's not the same thing as running as an independent. The answer to your question can be found here.

jibbly

I never noticed that Democrats had a raver star in their column while Republicans have a cool eagle in theirs. Who chooses these things??

NannyState

The State Security apparatus.

tom9d

Seeing Bloomberg on the Republican line is still funny.

suepart

thompson is so weak and crap a candidate it would seem that bloomberg put him up for election against him. nonetheless, a vote for the dork thompson is one against bloomberg.

hotstepper

any decent opposition candidate who may stand half a chance recognizes that a billionaire incumbent, who had the will and power to overthrow voter-mandated term limits, is not worth running against. this scenario is exactly why term limits are so important and why i refuse to vote for this conceited little prick.