10/28/2007 New Polling Sites for New Paltz Town Elections

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For students who live on campus at SUNY New Paltz (in election District 9), not much will be different this year in terms of voting in the New Paltz town elections. They can vote at the Student Union Building on campus on Tuesday, November 6th, from 6:00am to 9:00pm. However, for students and residents living off campus it might not be as simple, especially if they live in District 1. Since the Ulster County Board of Elections has changed their polling site for this election from the New Paltz Middle School - where it was for the last election - to Deyo Hall, there has been some confusion. The Deyo Hall many students of SUNY New Paltz are familiar with is the residence hall located on campus, however the polling site will instead be the Deyo Hall on 17 Broadhead Road, located behind the Salvation Army on North Chestnut or Route 32 North. Specific directions are as follows:

"You walk past the Salvation Army down Broadhead, cross the rail trail and it is the big blue building on your right."

District 5, a fairly large rural district, will also vote at Deyo Hall. Districts 4, 6, and 8 will still vote at the New Paltz Middle School, on the corner of South Manheim (32S) and Main Street (299). Districts 2, 3, 7, & 10 will vote at the New Paltz High School.

Those who are unsatisfied with the candidates on the ballot, may write in their own candidate. To vote for a candidate whose name does not appear on the machine, voters should raise the diagonal slide (at the top of the machine) above the title of the office, and write the name of the person for whom they wish to vote. Once the diagonal slide is lifted, voters can not pull down a lever in the same column.

Two candidates who are looking to be written in are James Pavelock, a progressive candidate for Highway Superintendent who was taken off the ballot on a technicality, and Pete Healey who is asking people to write him in because he is concerned that the County Legislature has been gerrymandered so that there is no significant competition for any of those seats. The county legislators are running unopposed in New Paltz.

A local man with a bio-diesel powered van has offered to drive people to their correct polling station: His name is Jonathan, and he can be reached at (845) 430-6708.