Preserve my right to vote by mail 📮

One of the great laws they’ve adopted in recent years in New York is Early Vote By Mail, where you can sign up once a year to have all the election ballots for the year mailed to your home address in a post-paid returned envelope. It’s so convenient, as about a month and half before the election, you get your ballot mailed to you in the mail. Included with the ballot is a privacy envelope, simple instructions, and postage-paid return envelope which you can use to drop your completed ballot in any USPS Collection Box, USPS Post Office or your home mail box.

I am a busy professional, and while I have Election Day off as a State Holiday, I often volunteer or work my other job with the campaign committee on Election Day. Primary Days I usually have to be in the office doing state work. But sometimes I travel on Election Day so I am no where near my polling place. Plus they moved my polling place further away from my house, to save money. So it’s really just a whole lot easier to fill out the ballot, in the privacy of my bedroom, without anyone looking over my shoulder or waiting to use the privacy booth, and then surrender the completed ballot at the USPS Collection Box on my way to work. And you can track both when the County Board mailed you your ballot, and when it was returned to the County Board.