{"id":66160,"date":"2016-03-08T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T02:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66160"},"modified":"2016-03-06T23:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T04:13:42","slug":"deadlines-approaching-for-this-years-primary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66160","title":{"rendered":"Deadlines approaching for this year&#8217;s primary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=51161\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-51161\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Vote-here.jpg\" alt=\"Vote here\" width=\"226\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Vote-here.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Vote-here-150x88.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>There will be full county presidential primaries for the Democratic Party and Republican Party Tuesday, April 19. If you wish to vote in the primary election, you must be registered by March 25 and a member of either the Democratic or Republican party.<\/p>\n<p>In New York state, a registered voter remaining within the county cannot change their party affiliation at this time to vote in the primaries. According to Election Law 5-302.2, any party enrollment change made between 24 days before the General Election in 2015 and 25 days before the General Election in 2016 (Oct. 14) will not go into effect until <span data-term=\"goog_1827101604\">Nov. 15<\/span>. Voters can verify their registration and enrollment at <a href=\"http:\/\/voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us\/votersearch.aspx\">http:\/\/voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us\/votersearch.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has moved since they last registered must re-register. Registration forms are available from the Madison County Board of Elections by calling <a href=\"tel:%28315%29%20366-2231\">(315) 366-2231<\/a> or may be downloaded from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisoncounty.ny.gov\/boe\">www.madisoncounty.ny.gov\/boe<\/a>. Forms are also available at post offices and town, city and village clerks offices.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to vote by absentee ballot, the absentee application forms are available from the Madison County Board of Elections by calling <a href=\"tel:%28315%29%20366-2231\">(315) 366-2231<\/a> and can also be downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisoncounty.ny.gov\/boe\">www.madisoncounty.ny.gov\/boe<\/a>. You may also come into our office at 138 N. Court St., Building 4, Wampsville, to complete an absentee form and vote in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There will be full county presidential primaries for the Democratic Party and Republican Party Tuesday, April 19. If you wish to vote in the primary election, you must be registered by March 25 and a member of either the Democratic or Republican party. In New York state, a registered voter remaining within the county [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}