To register to vote, get an absentee ballot, contact the board of elecitons or find your polling place - check out the links on the drop down menu under "Resources"/"NYC Voting Information."

Primary Election - Eligibility Requirements (Party Enrollment)

In a Primary Election, only voters registered with one of the parties holding a primary election may vote to nominate their party's candidate to run in the general election. (For example: you must be a registered Democrat to vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary on February 5, 2008.)

Voters registered without party affiliation may vote only in General and Special Elections.

To Change Your Party Affiliation:

You can change your party affiliation by obtaining a Voter Registration Form, filling out the form completely, checking the party enrollment box for the primary you want to vote in, and sending it to the Board of Elections.

You cannot CHANGE your NY party enrollment and vote in that party's primary in the same year. A change of enrollment will go into affect one week following the General Election. The last day to change your enrollment is the same as the last day to register for the General Election (25 days prior to the date of the General Election). (For example: you must change your party enrollment by October 30, 2007 in order to be eligible to vote in that party's Presidential Primary election on February 5, 2007.)

New Voters or Moved from Another State

If you are not registered to vote in NY, you can choose your party when you register to vote and be eligible to vote in that party's primary. In other words, the above rule about party registration does not apply when you are a new voter in NY even if you were registered with a different party in another state.

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Get your Assemblymember's and Senator's name and find their Contact Information at the following links:

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Update/Question: does anybody know if this made it into the city budget? 

Today we reported in the DFNYC newsletter that we heard that the current version of the proposed city budget includes a $250 million appropriation for Bruce Ratner, the developer of the controversial Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn. We asked if you had heard anything about this and we did some research.

It turns out it's *only* $205 million, but it is still controversial. David Michaelson, a DFNYC'er in Brooklyn, reports at this link (scroll down) that:

- $100 million is slated for land acquisition costs on behalf of Forest City Ratner, Bruce Ratner's company, which essentially looks like taxpayers are reimbursing Ratner for the cost to buy the land, basically buying the land for him, and

On July 15, 2007 (recently extended from May 15), a new royalty structure will go into effect that will shut down most streaming Internet-only music broadcasters and cause havoc with streaming from NPR affiliates. Representative Jay Inslee (WA-1) has introduced HR 2060 to reverse these changes and give the industry an opportunity to work out a new structure that will not destroy this nascent medium.