Attn: High School Seniors in NY-3!
Register NOW to vote in the upcoming special election
9,000 18-year-olds have an opportunity to register and vote in the election to fill George Santos’s vacant seat.
Under New York law, within 10 days of a vacancy occurring, the Governor is required to issue a proclamation declaring a special election. The special election is required to take place between 70 and 80 days after the proclamation. You can read more about the process here.
Most 18-year-olds in the district are not yet registered to vote. The third Congressional District includes parts of Queens and Nassau County. In these counties, only 6.4% and 18.5% of 16- and 17-year-olds, respectively, were preregistered to vote as of February 2023. The registration rates for 18-year-olds today are unlikely to be dramatically higher than these preregistration rates.
The deadline to register will be 10 days before the special election.
New York State has easy online registration tools. Click the button below that pertains to you:
George Santos won his seat by 20,420 votes. Your vote can make a difference.
What can you do?
For a map to find the cities and town in the district, click here. Then ask everyone you know in the district to make sure they are registered to vote and that everyone in their family has registered, as well.
Urge teens and educators to attend an upcoming Run-A-Drive workshop, so they can hold a voter registration drive in their school before the deadline to register, which is 10 days before election day.
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Donate to support our efforts. All funds obtained through this link between now and the special election will go to support our work in New York.
Don’t forget that everyone who registers to vote in the special election will also be old enough to vote in the general election in 2024, when this seat will be up for grabs again.
About the data:
According to the American Community Survey, there are 771,208 people in New York’s third Congressional District, and 45,575 of them are between the ages of 15-19. We can estimate the number of 18-year-olds by dividing by 5, which gets us 9,115 18-year-olds in the district.