historically, New Yorkers approve ballot measures 74% of the time (per 's research)
not this year!
we're on track for NO votes on 3 of the 5 questions
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the latest: New York on Track to Pass Environmental Rights Ballot Proposal as Voting Changes Get Shot Down
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BALLOT QUESTION LATEST — nearly all of New York State's 15,554 districts are reporting in-person results and this still stands:
Expanded voting access and redistricting changes = 🚫
Environmental rights and Civil Court limit = ✅
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fwiw: early last night, most of NYC's vote totals were reported quickly — and it looked like all 5 proposals would pass.
then as upstate + suburban counties reported, many of them split against Props 1, 3 and 4. results by county here: nyenr.elections.ny.gov
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In The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, a plurality of voters approved Proposals 3 and 4. But in those same boroughs, between 17% and 27% of voters left those questions blank.
Updated story with more on vote breakdown:
props (no pun intended) to for this useful analysis of the ballot question vote:
only three counties in the state — New York (Manhattan), Tompkins and Ulster — approved the same-day voter registration proposal by more than 50%
timesunion.com/news/article/T
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Today while working as a @BOENYC poll worker I witnessed many people leave the back of their ballots blank or be very confused about the questions. twitter.com/morganfmckay/s…
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