If you've requested a mail-in ballot but haven't sent it back yet, don't mail it now. Too late for that. Hand deliver it to your county board of elections by 8 p.m. tomorrow, or go to your polling place the regular way on Tuesday.
"It is important for voters who have applied for and received a vote-by-mail ballot to understand that they cannot mail the ballot on Election day. A Nov. 3 postmark is not good enough," said Public Advocate Ronald Chen. "The only way to make sure that that ballot is counted on Election day is to take it personally or have a bearer take it to the county board of elections."
If you've requested a mail-in ballot but didn't send it back, or asked for a mail-in ballot but didn't receive it, or had your application to vote by mail rejected, you can vote at your regular polling place by provisional ballot, although not at the voting machine. The polling book may indicate that you requested a mail-in ballot, and you'll have to certify you didn't send it back. After the county confirms you didn't, it will count your provisional ballot.
As of last Friday, counties had rejected 6,781 vote-by-mail applications, according to Chen's office -- 2,317 because the applications didn't arrive by the Oct. 27 deadline, and 3,024 because the signatures on the application didn't match the ones on file.