Election Day is Tomorrow: Find Out About Early Voting Turnout and the Candidates Election Day is Tomorrow: Find Out About Voter Turnout & the Candidates

(LILIA WOOD)

TOMORROW’S ELECTION DAY BUT SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY VOTED.

(TOM VIELKIND)

OUR SHOSHANA STAHL HAS THE LATEST BREAKDOWN FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN’T BEFORE YOU HIT THE POLLS.

(SHOSHANA STAHL)

NEW YORK STATE DID EARLY VOTING FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR.

BOARD OF ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER DUSTIN CZARNY SAID RESULTS AREN’T OFFICIAL UNTIL 20 DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION BUT THEY DO HAVE SOME UNOFFICIAL NUMBERS.

2,000 VOTERS THAT DON’T NORMALLY PARTICIPATE IN A LOCAL ELECTION VOTED EARLY.

THE STATE SAID 1.9% OF THE POPULATION VOTED EARLY BUT HERE IN ONONDAGA COUNTY THAT NUMBER WAS 2.9%.

SO HERE IN ONONDAGA COUNTY THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS TWEETED THAT NEARLY 8,500 EARLY VOTES WERE PROCESSED AND THREE-THOUSAND ABSENTEE BALLOTS WERE CAST.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 292,000 REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE COUNTY.

THE LAST COUNTY EXECUTIVE ELECTION IN 2015 HAD A 25% TURNOUT.

COMMISSIONER CZARNY SAYS WE CAN SEE A HIGHER TURNOUT THAN BEFORE BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE ARE REGISTERING, THE LOCAL RACES ARE CLOSER THAN BEFORE AND EARLY VOTING HELPED TO DRIVE VOTER TURNOUT.

HE SAYS VOTING IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTION HAS MORE SIGNIFICANCE THAN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

(DUSTIN CZARNY)

“Your vote is more important in local elections than in any other election because these are the people that will determine what your daily life is like.”

(SHOSHANA STAHL)

NOW LET’S LOOK INTO TOMORROW’S CANDIDATES STARTING WITH THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE RACE.

INCUMBENT AND REPUBLICAN, RYAN MCMAHON IS BEING CHALLENGED BY DEMOCRAT, TONY MALAVENDA– WHO ONCE RAN FOR OFFICE BACK IN THE 1980s.

MCMAHON WANTS TO CONTINUE FOCUSING ON HIS PIE PLAN- POVERTY, INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. HE MADE TAX CUTS AND LOWERED UNEMPLOYMENT RATES DURING HIS FIRST-YEAR IN OFFICE.

MALAVENDA WANTS TO MODERNIZE THE COUNTY WITH AN I-T NETWORK FOR MUNICIPALITIES THAT WOULD KEEP PRICES DOWN, TRACK PROGRESS AND COMPLETE NEEDED REPAIRS AND INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THE CITY…

REPUBLICAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY, WILLIAM FITZPATRICK, IS BEING CHALLENGED FOR OFFICE BY BOTH A REPUBLICAN AND A DEMOCRAT.

FITZPATRICK HAS HELD THE OFFICE FOR 27 YEARS. HE IS KNOWN FOR CREATING A DIVERSION COURT, WHICH IS A REHAB PROGRAM, TO HELP LAWBREAKERS.

GARY LAVINE WORKS AT A SYRACUSE LAW FIRM AND HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY TO BECOME DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

CHUCK KELLER IS ALSO ON THE BALLOT. HE’S FOCUSING ON CRIMINALS WHO NEED MORE THAN PUNISHMENT TO GET BACK ON THEIR FEET.

LASTLY, ONONDAGA COUNTY IS VOTING ON THE NEXT COUNTY COMPTROLLER.

MATT BEADNELL IS THE CURRENT COMPTROLLER AND WAS VOTED IN BY THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE IN JANUARY.

THE SEAT WAS VACANT WHEN BOB ANTONACCI RESIGNED AFTER WINNING THE ELECTION FOR THE STATE SENATE.

ON THE OTHER HAND– MARTY MASTERPOLE IS ENDING HIS EIGHT YEAR TERM AS SYRACUSE’S ELECTED AUDITOR AFTER HITTING THE TERM-LIMIT.

WHEN YOU GET TO THE POLLS TOMORROW, YOU CAN ALSO VOTE FOR THE LEGISLATORS IN YOUR DISTRICT WITHIN ONONDAGA COUNTY.

CZARNY SAYS THE ELECTRONIC POLL PADS WILL MAKE VOTING MORE EFFICIENT THIS YEAR AND MAKE LINES SHORTER.

YOU HAVE TO GO TO YOUR DESIGNATED POLLING LOCATION TOMORROW.

YOU CAN FIND THAT INFORMATION OUT ON ON-VOTE DOT NET.

REPORTING LIVE IN STUDIO, I’M SHOSHANA STAHL.