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Presidential Race: Bronx Residents Head to the Polls

LONG LINES AT one Norwood site was the order of Election Day. Photo by Daniela Beasley
LONG LINES AT P.S. 56, a polling site in Norwood, stood as the order of the day this Election Day.
Photo by Daniela Beasley

With the presidential race, one of the more hotly contested presidential races in recent memory, upon us, the Norwood News is sending out a friendly reminder to vote. If you don’t know where to vote, here are some helpful resources:

  • To get to know the positions of each of the presidential candidates, go to ontheissues.org. Or click here. 
  • For those who don’t know where to vote, check out this link courtesy of the New York City Board of Elections, which will look up your polling site for you. Hint: if you know your Assembly or Congressional district by memory, you can skip the long lines and just go to your designated voting line.
  • Or check out this listing of polling sites from NYCBOE.
  • Fearing efforts of voter intimidation and terror threats, the de Blasio administration is set to put one cop at every registered polling site in New York City.
  • For those who feel there were some voter irregularities at a polling site, NYCBOE has a hotline for that. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who’s still investigating voter fraud claims across the state, says too has a hotline to report voter fraud. To make a report, call (800) 771-7755. “If voters encounter any barriers to voting or improprieties at the ballot box, call my office immediately,” Schneiderman said in a statement.
  • After the polls close, check out this nifty site that tracks the unofficial numbers for the presidential race.
  • The Bronx Democratic County Committee is looking for you to vote, and is offering rides to anyone who can’t make it to a polling site. If you need to schedule a ride, call (347) 281-9759.

Polls are open from 6 a.m. until 9 p.m., giving everyone a chance to cast their ballot. With that said, go out and vote!

 

Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.

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