I was one of the voters who made sure Jeff Klein did not survive his primary challenge.

But during her campaign, I canvassed for her in Pelham and City Island, and wrote over 100 postcards.

:deonkey:

The place was deserted. News reports, however, indicate that there was a higher than expected turnout state-wide.

What was your experience?

By the way, thanks for your service, DinahMoeHum. As the fictional President Andrew Shepard said, "America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad." We all have to work hard to make our country work.

Just at the district I was working at, there was about 30% turnout of folks who actually came to the polling place (and that's not counting any absentee ballots cast).

And this was was NOT in one of the IDC districts, either. Only the Governor, LT Gov, and AG slots were on the ballot.

In Georgia 6.

Good luck in the governor's race. Go, Stacy Abrams!

Been all over, and now I'm pretty much "stationed" in Riverhead, Long island.

It's a long damn day for a little over 200 bucks, but, like a lot of things, you forget the aggravation after a decent night's sleep. I agree that everyone should give it a shot for the experience and to see how things work in the real world-- I see a lot of talk from people you don't even know voted, much less know about the nuts and bolts of elections, and a day dealing with it is highly instructional. AFIK, it's easy to get the job-- most BoE's are always looking for people.

Turnout was a lot better than we expected for an oddball primary, but NY election law is really behind the times, and our county BoE doesn't help by screwing up the voter rolls. We had over 10% provisional/affidavit ballots, which is pretty high.

I'm on the local Democratic committee, too, and I guess I'm a precinct captain, but party jobs out here are ill-defined. As with many (most?) places, the party is run pretty much in secret by insiders and even those of us supposedly on the "inside" have little or no voice and get more information from the local papers and activists than from the party. All town committees are not like that, but too many are.

though I suspect not by much.

New Rochelle's Democratic Committee, which I joined in the summer of 2016, in particular, has become one of the powerhouses of the Westchester county Democrats. Since January 2017, they have been bolstered by groups such as Indivisible, who have volunteered as reinforcements to the ground games our candidates ran last year and this year, with devastating success against the GOP

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/09/13/new-york-primary-elections/1288392002/

The election of President Donald Trump in 2016 has been viewed as sparking a new level of engagement in liberal-leaning voters, particularly voters of the white suburban persuasion. So-called resistance groups such as indivisible have led to a surge of volunteerism in Democratic campaigns downstate, several marquee victories — and a push toward progressive legislation and policies.

The formula has worked for Democrats, at least in Westchester County, for several recent marquee elections. Democrat George Latimer won a landslide victory against Republican incumbent Rob Astorino in the race for Westchester County executive last November.

In April, Democrat Shelley Mayer rode the anti-Trump wave to easily beat Republican Julie Killian in a special election for the state Senate.

BTW, last year, the uproar against the GOP was so massive, they are also now left with only FOUR (4) of the 17 County Legislator seats in the county government.

In the past, there had been a nominal majority of Democrats to Republicans, but because of voter and party member apathy, they were losing in elections. That has been turned around, big time (so far)

As our county executive Latimer told me: If you want to get to Berlin, first you have to get to Normandy.

dwarfing the other towns. And of the East End towns, Easthampton, Southhampton, Southold and Shelter Island are overloaded with seasonal homes. Riverhead not as much, but still a lot. Noncitizens abound, too. And not just Hispanics.

We own Brookhaven, for the moment, but that's not quite as good as it sounds. Riverhead got a new Dem Supervisor and one Council member, which is great and solving a few problems-- I know both them and they are doing a great job. We should be able to get at least one more next election.

Southampton is in turmoil at the moment (not unusual) and the other towns are swimming along without much change. Southold is disturbingly and stubbornly Republican, but it's been that way forever and there are a few recent signs of cracking.

For Wednesday's Times article on NY's archaic election law:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/opinion/new-york-primary-election-go-vote.html

Don't expect too many changes any time soon, though-- you know how Albany works...

...employees at the court house open and scan each ballot and the employees can dispute signatures and send them back to the voter for a better signature...happened to me once was no big deal. As a volunteer we couldnt talk to the workers..so we just sat there. I guess to make sure a ballot didnt fall onto the floor or something

Hopefully, if we get a real majority in the NY state senate, they and we will finally get laws that will make it easier for people to vote, whether they are party-affiliated or not.

The legislation is there, but so far, it had been stymied by turncoats within the Democratic Party.
Hopefully now that they've been ousted and the new candidates voted in come November, that will start to change.

or any suspiciously busy taco trucks?

. . .nothing but elementary school kids, teachers, custodians. . .and voters.

Would've liked to have the taco truck, though. . .even though my home is only 5 minutes away from the school and I went home for my meal break.

The biggest problem is that you miss all the election parties.

Once the polls closed in my region (Westchester County) at 9 pm, it took less than half an hour to close up shop via the checklists and get the results to the Board of Elections.

If there was a party held in my area, I could've gotten there by 10pm or thereabouts, in time to see the returns coming in.

As it was, I felt high as a kite last night when I turned on the computer and the TV and watched the results.

And this coming Sunday, my Indivisible group is having their monthly meeting - mostly to celebrate. Same thing for this coming Monday night, when my hometown Democratic committee has their monthly meeting.