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New Yorkers voting in a polling location near Lincoln Square. A heavily populated Middle Atlantic state, New York is considered a blue state, not having voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1984. New York continued that trend in 2024, but Democrats saw a huge underprefomance compared to past elections.
A county worker handles ballots in a scanning machine at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)
One sort-of new wrinkle in 2024: any voter can request a mail-in ballot to cast during early-voting periods. Ballot applications can be submitted online or at a county board of elections.
In 2020 the state of New York tightened its ballot access prerequisites, among other things raising the threshold for parties to automatically qualify onto the ballot and for candidates to independently petition onto it. In a separate issue, Kennedy's petition was denied by a state judge for using a false address.
The 2024 New York Democratic presidential primary was held on April 2, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 306 delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be allocated to presidential candidates.
In March 2023, New York Democrats challenged the new map, deeming it incorrect for the Court to draw the map, claiming that the job lies solely with the Legislature and I.R.C. [3] In July 2023, an intermediate appeals court ruled that the I.R.C. must create another new map for the 2024 House Elections. [4]
The 2024 New York's 3rd congressional district special election was held on February 13, 2024, to fill the vacant seat in New York's 3rd congressional district for the remainder of the 118th United States Congress. The seat became vacant after the expulsion of Republican George Santos on December 1, 2023.
New York failed to meet its November 28 deadline to certify the election, with hundreds of thousands of votes still uncounted. [55] State Senator Michael Gianaris commented, "if we were a swing state in this presidential election, this would be a national scandal". [53] New York's voting tabulation was updated on March 15, 2021.