Get Ready to Vote!

Register to Vote
Request an Absentee Ballot
Find Your Polling Place
Volunteer to Help Ben's Campaign on Election Day!

Register to Vote

Note: The deadline has passed to register for the Primary Election on September 12, but you may still register for the November 7 General Election!

How to register:

• You can download a PDF version of the New York State Voter Registration Form.
  
  • Download English Form
    
  • Download Spanish Form
    
  Print the form, complete and sign it, and mail it to your county board of elections.
• You can register in person at your county board of elections or at any New York State Agency-Based voter registration center.
• You can call New York's 1-800-FOR-VOTE hotline to request a voter application.

Qualifications:

• be a United States citizen;
• be 18 years old by December 31 of the year in which you file this form (note: you must be 18 years old by the date of the general, primary or other election in which you want to vote);
• live at your present address at least 30 days before an election;
• not be in jail or on parole for a felony conviction and;
• not claim the right to vote elsewhere.

Request an Absentee Ballot

How to vote by absentee ballot:

• You may download a PDF version of the New York State Absentee Ballot Application Form and mail it to your county board of elections.
• Applications for Absentee Ballots are available at your county board of elections.
• Upon completion, applications must be mailed to your county board no later than the seventh day before the election or delivered in person no later than the day before the election.
• You may also request an Absentee Ballot by sending a letter to your county board of elections. The letter must be received by your county board no earlier than 30 days and no later than seven days before the election. The letter must contain the following information:
  - the address where you are registered
  - an address where the ballot is to be sent
  - the reason for the request, and
  - the signature of the voter.
  

An application form will be mailed with your ballot. The application form must be completed and returned with your ballot.

If you cannot pick up your ballot, or will not be able to receive it through the mail, you have the right to designate someone to pick it up for you. Only that person designated on your application may pick up and deliver your ballot.

If you are permanently ill or disabled, you have the right to receive an Absentee Ballot for each subsequent election without further application. Simply file an application with your board of elections containing a statement which describes the particulars of your illness or disability. The Board will review the facts stated, and if satisfied, will mark your registration record. You will then automatically receive an absentee ballot for every election until your registration is canceled.

Qualifications:

• unavoidably absent from your county on Election Day
• unable to appear at the polls due to illness or disability
• a patient in a Veterans’ Administration Hospital
• detained in jail awaiting Grand Jury action or confined in prison after conviction for an offense other than a felony

Find Your Polling Place

Dutchess County Residents
Use the Dutchess County Board of Elections polling place lookup or call the Dutchess County BOE at 845.486.2473.

Orange County Residents
Use the Orange County Board of Elections polling place lookup or call the Orange County BOE at 845.291.2444.

Putnam County Residents
Putnam County polling places are not available online, but you may call the Putnam County Board of Elections at 845.278.6970.

Rockland County Residents
Use the Rockland County Board of Elections polling place lookup or call the Rockland County BOE at 845.638.5172.

Weschester County Residents
Use the polling place locator on the Westchester County Board of Elections website or call the Westchester County BOE at 914.995.5700.

Volunteer to Help Ben's Campaign on Election Day!

If you are available to help on Election Day, or on any day between now and the election, please let us know!! Call our campaign headquarters at 914.930.6210 or 845.790.5053, or email us at volunteer-AT-ben2006.com.

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