Low voter turnout could potentially turn several key races into nail-biters on Tuesday.
At Hamilton-Madison House, a polling site on the Lower East Side, voters were hard to come by on Sunday afternoon.
Tom LaGatta, a 39-year-old resident who opted to cast his vote early, said that despite a recent report of Manhattanites“A lot of the people that I talked to are in town,” he said. “They're not running off to the Hamptons.”“We had a primary this summer already,” he said. “It's like, we're all exhausted and we need a rest.”10th District race
has drawn 12 candidates, but polls showed four major candidates in a competitive battle: Dan Goldman, a former prosecutor; state Assemblymember Yuh-line Niou; City Councilmember Carlina Rivera and Congressman Mondaire Jones. In the 12th District, which combines the east and west sides of Manhattan, the contest will involve the loss of at least one senior member of Congress. U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney are two incumbents vying for the same seat. They are facing a challenge from Suraj Patel, a lawyer who is seeking his first elected office.“I was almost dreading this day,” said Rich, a 60-year-old voter who voted at the Robert F. Kennedy public school on East 88th Street on Sunday.
Although he voted for Nadler, he said he was hoping that “somehow magically one of them will endorse the other and drop out,” but that has not shown signs of happening anytime soon.
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