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9,000 18-year olds can determine the special election to replace George Santos in NY-03 [1]

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Date: 2023-12-03  

George Santos was expelled as the Congressman from NY-3 Friday morning.

Within minutes of the vote, I received an email from the non-partisan voter registration group, The Civics Center, with this title: Attn: High School Seniors in NY-3: 9,000 18-year-olds have an opportunity to register and vote in the election to fill George Santos’s vacant seat. Their data shows:

Most 18-year-olds in the district are not yet registered to vote. The third Congressional District includes parts of Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties. In these counties, only 6.4%, 18.5%, and 23.5% 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 special election will be in about 90 days and New Yorkers can register to vote until 10 days before the election.

New York has recently made it possible for anyone to register to vote on line:

What can you do right now?

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