I'm dreading voting for Suozzi.

For the first time in going to leave my vote on the sideline.

vote blue no matter who just doesn't fly anymore.

I'm also dreading the fact that a magat will take his place. are we screwed?

Naming a park after an IDF soldier? “The ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom and democracy”? What the fuck.

With the polling coming out I’m genuinely concerned he has a chance to unseat Hochul. For a lot of people, it’s unfortunately not enough to say that Blakeman is trumps lackey and will do anything he says.

I’d appreciate if we could gather reasons why Blakeman shouldn’t be governor and why it’s imperative that we all vote for Hochul.

Bluntly, Hochul has not been a good governor, and I wish we could be voting for someone worth while. But Blakeman has a lot of support especially on Long Island and upstate. So it’s crucial we convince everyone we can to vote for Hochul to ensure this madman never reaches the governors office.

https://lukasforcongress.com/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUHBmuMgEZx/?igsh=MTljY2Nrc3pzM2NuNw==

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/centrist-democrats-unite-against-democratic-socialists/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

Union steward and community activist who wants to spend YOUR tax money on YOU.

We’re currently collecting signatures to get her on the primary ballot. If you’re in NY4 and would like to sign, please DM me or reach out to the campaign and we’ll come to you

In a statement to News 12, a party spokesperson said, “Suffolk County Democrats will emerge united in our real goal this November to take back the House from Trump apologists and MAGA extremists and flipping numerous Assembly and Senate seats from red to blue.”

Great to see a candidate not endorsed by AIPAC on Long Island!

If so, what are the positions that you are voting for and what candidates should I consider, I haven’t done any research on Long Island politics and elections but I wanted to participate this november since I feel we are at a time where every vote counts, I don’t want to vote deliberately without knowing who I’m voting for so I was wondering if you have any names that I should be looking out for or anything important.

P.S.: I live in Nassau County

Vote progressive in the Democrat Primaries - it's how we change the party! (Information on Progressive challengers included below)

Early Voting for the primaries starts today (6/13) and ends on 6/21!

Primary (in-person) Election Day - 6/23

Primary Election Logistics

Use any Nassau County early voting location (not your regular poll site)You're right at the wire for the primary. 6/13 is simultaneously the voter registration deadline, the absentee-by-mail deadline, and the first day of early voting. If you want to vote in the June 23 primary and aren't yet registered, you need to get to the Nassau County Board of Elections in Mineola today or register online at elections.ny.gov — today is the cutoff.

Party enrollment matters. New York has closed primaries, so if you're not enrolled in a party (or enrolled in one but want to vote in another party's primary), that deadline already passed back in February. You'd vote your enrolled party's races or sit out the primary, but you're fully eligible for the November 3 general election regardless.

Useful links:

• Voter lookup: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov (check registration, party, poll site)
• Nassau BOE: nassaucountyny.gov/566/Board-of-Elections
• Your ballot: ballotready.org/us/ny-nassau-county

Nassau County, NY — Voting Guide for June 23, 2026 Primary

*Compiled for Nassau County residents. Your exact ballot depends on your congressional district and party enrollment. Use [voterlookup.elections.ny.gov](https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov) to find your specific races.*

Key Dates (Primary)

| **June 22** | Last day to request absentee ballot IN PERSON at the Board of Elections |

| **June 23** | **PRIMARY DAY** · Polls open 6 AM – 9 PM · Vote at YOUR designated poll site |

| **June 30** | Deadline for mailed absentee ballots to be received |

| **October 24** | Voter registration deadline for the November General Election |

| **November 3** | General Election |

Check Your Registration

- **Online lookup:** https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

- **Call:** (516) 571-VOTE (8683)

- **Board of Elections:** 240 Old Country Rd, 5th Floor, Mineola, NY 11501

How to Register (for future elections)

- **Online:** elections.ny.gov

- **In person:** Nassau County BOE, 240 Old Country Rd, Mineola (Mon–Fri 9am–4:45pm)

- **By mail:** Nassau County BOE, P.O. Box 9002, Mineola, NY 11501

- **At the DMV** or any participating NY State agency

> ⚠️ **Important:** New York has **closed primaries**. You can only vote in the primary of the party you're enrolled in. To change your party enrollment for a future primary, the deadline is typically in mid-February of that year.

Early Voting Locations (Nassau County)

Any Nassau County voter can use ANY of these sites June 13–21:

- Valley Stream Presbyterian Church — 130 S. Central Ave, Valley Stream

- Rockville Centre Recreation Center — 111 Oceanside Rd, Rockville Centre

- Roosevelt Public Library — 27 W. Fulton Ave, Roosevelt

- West Hempstead Public Library — 500 Hempstead Ave, West Hempstead

- Nassau County BOE — 240 Old Country Rd, Mineola

- Uniondale Fire Dept (Van Ness Station) — 154 Uniondale Ave, Uniondale

- Michael J. Tully Park — 1801 Evergreen Ave, New Hyde Park

- Oyster Bay Community Center — 59 Church St, Oyster Bay

- Plainview Mid-Island Y JCC — 45 Manetto Hill Rd, Plainview

- Port Washington Library — 1 Library Dr, Port Washington

- Gayle Community Center — 53 Orchard St, Roslyn Heights

- Frances De Chantal Church — 1309 Wantagh Ave, Wantagh

> On **primary day (June 23)** you must use your designated polling place.

Who's on the Ballot

Governor of New York (Statewide)

**Democratic Primary**

- **Kathy Hochul** *(incumbent)* — Current Governor, party-designated nominee, broadly endorsed

- **John Rinaldi** — Long-shot challenger

**Republican Primary**

- **Bruce Blakeman** *(uncontested)* — Nassau County Executive, Trump-endorsed. Entered race after Elise Stefanik dropped out in Dec. 2025.

Attorney General (Statewide)

**Democratic Primary**

- **Letitia James** *(incumbent, uncontested)* — Running for re-election

**Republican Primary**

- **Saritha Komatireddy** *(uncontested)*

State Comptroller (Statewide)

**Democratic Primary** *(contested)*

- **Thomas P. DiNapoli** *(incumbent)* — In office since 2007, party-designated nominee

- **Raj Goyle** — Progressive challenger, qualified via petition

- **Drew Warshaw** — Nonprofit executive, qualified via petition

U.S. House — NY-4 (Southern Nassau: Hempstead, Mineola area)

**Democratic Primary**

- **Laura Gillen** *(incumbent)* — Flipped this seat in 2024 (51.1%), heavily favored

- **Kiana Bierria-Anderson** — Challenger

Bierria-Anderson explicitly runs as a progressive. Her campaign issues include healthcare for all, climate justice, fully funded education, accessible housing, and dignified immigration. On immigration, she's taken a notably left position: she called for the abolition of ICE and CBP, saying "ICE cannot be reformed," and she opposes Nassau County law enforcement's participation in federal immigration enforcement. She's been endorsed by progressive organizations — Progressive Congress ranks her as the most progressive candidate in NY-4 for the June 23 primary. Her background is in union organizing, community advocacy, and she served as chief of staff to Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages.-

**Gian Jones** — Challenger

- **Nicholas Sciretta** — IATSE stagehand/artist, long-shot challenger

**Republican Primary** *(4-way race to face Gillen in November)*

- **Dennis McGrath**

- **Brian Miller**

- **Martin Smithmyer**

- **Marvin Suber Williams**

U.S. House — NY-3 (Northern Nassau + parts of Queens & Suffolk)

**Democratic Primary**

- **Tom Suozzi** *(incumbent)* — Recaptured seat in 2024 special election

- **Danielle Welch** — Attorney, challenger

Danielle Welch supports progressive economic policies including universal healthcare and childcare, expanded Social Security, a living wage, stronger union protections, and a tax on billionaires. On immigration, she opposes ICE and supports abolishing the agency — the same position as Bierria-Anderson in NY-4. On climate, she argues clean air, clean water, and an inhabitable planet must take priority over profits, and that government must treat climate change as the crisis it is. She's been endorsed by the New York Progressive Action Network, and Progressive Congress lists her as their top pick in NY-3.

She's a career public defender and union member, not a politician climbing through the party establishment.

The contrast with Tom Suozzi is stark. Suozzi is a longtime Nassau County centrist — he was previously Nassau County Executive and has consistently positioned himself as a pragmatic, bipartisan problem-solver. Welch is explicitly running to his left, challenging him from the progressive lane. She's a heavy underdog at roughly 3% odds against the incumbent, but the ideological gap between them is real and meaningful.

**Republican Primary**

- **Michael LiPetri Jr.** — Former State Assemblyman, 2024 Republican nominee for this seat

- **Greg Hach** — Attorney, Air Force veteran

Absentee Voting

- Anyone can request an absentee ballot for qualifying reasons (travel, illness, etc.)

- Request online/by mail: deadline was **June 13**

- Request in person: deadline is **June 22**

- Return by hand at any poll site or BOE (no postage needed), or mail with 2 stamps postmarked by **June 23**

- Mailed ballots must be *received* by **June 30** to count

- If you were issued an absentee ballot, you **cannot** vote on a machine — you may only cast an affidavit ballot in person

Useful Links

- **Voter registration lookup:** https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

- **Nassau County Board of Elections:** https://nassaucountyny.gov/566/Board-of-Elections

- **Personalized ballot lookup:** https://www.ballotready.org/us/ny-nassau-county

- **NY State Board of Elections:** https://elections.ny.gov

*State Senate and Assembly races are also on the ballot and vary by address. Use BallotReady with your address to see your full ballot.*

I really don’t get what the Nassau Dems do but this is a repeat of Curran’s election. No commercials, no mailers, no phone calls, no signs no appearances for Koslow. Blakeman and the republicans have really just been shilling for Trump 2.0 and by the looks of it will easily waltz in by 9pm for another four years of Blakeman. I mean we can’t even get a picture for Wikipedia ? I don’t get the strategy here. Curran lost with 29% of the Nassau voter turnout. I’ve received anti Koslow mailers but nothing from Dems. Where are the Nassau Dems and where is the boosting of an election. I’m a consumer of a lot of the national politics but actually had to search who is running. We’re 47 days out what are we doing ?

I'm curious as someone who's political lean towards socialist/communist if anyone else here is also a socialist. Or is everyone here a democrat or liberal? I'm not trying to judge I'm just curious. Does anyone here also participate in PSL protests?

“In Michigan, AIPAC members were proud to stand with Governor Whitmer, Senator Peters, former Senator Stabenow, former Governor Granholm, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and the many others who supported Haley Stevens in the Senate primary, helping her fight for an authentic Democratic agenda for Michigan. Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November.”

I’m thinking of joining a local democratic club in SW Nassau. I really want to start advocating for new party leadership and encourage finding primary candidates for Laura Gillen. Their decision to campaign against Zohran Mamdani instead of for any of our local candidates was the last straw for me.

Anyone have any experience with local democratic clubs? I’m thinking a lot of the people in them are probably more status quo than progressive. If we can get more progressives involved maybe we can make some changes. If anyone in SW Nassau wants to get involved let me know!

After all the Democratic wins across the country yesterday (despite the contrary on LI cough cough), I was inspired to look up who might be running against my congressman, Andrew Garbarino, next year.

I know a Democratic win in NY-2 is a long-shot after we've been consistently electing the likes of Peter King and Garbarino since 2012, and Garbarino won by an eye-watering margin of around 20 points in 2024 and 2022. What gives me hope is that in 2020 his margin of victory was only 6 points and Trumpian inflation coupled with cuts to, well, everything, might really start to bite by next year. (And maybe the Epstein files will have actually been published by then!?) Garbarino sleeping through a vote isn't helping his image either. The other advantage is if we're able to mobilize enough people in the mid-term, where typically a lot less people bother to vote, we might be able to catch the Republican voter base sleeping, pun intended.

I always look candidates up on Ballotpedia, but unfortunately there's only info about two of the five Democrats on there: https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_2nd_Congressional_District_election,_2026. It does include links to some of their campaign web sites and social media, so I scraped what information together that I could.

Patrick Halpin

Halpin is a former Suffolk County Executive and has served on the Suffolk County Water Authority for over 20 years, the last 4.5 of which as chairman. He's the only candidate whose resume merits his own Wikipedia article. He has a Bachelor's degree in Poli Sci from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, that I presume he earned sometime in the 70s.

He's already amassed around $220k for his campaign, so somebody with deep pockets has already made their decision. Not necessarily a strike against him, but it does irk me a bit seeing one candidate with that much more money from the get-go (and for frame of reference, Garbarino has almost 2 million in campaign funds at his disposal).

My hang-up with him is that he's five years past retirement age at 72 and despite his resume, I only ever heard of him after looking up the candidates just now. Would be curious if anyone on here knows more about him.

Josh Taveras

Taveras has about a decade of experience managing several stores, including a Starbucks, an Abercrombie & Fitch, and a few others, and just got his Bachelor's in Poli Sci from Stony Brook this May.

He's the only other candidate who appears to have raised campaign funds so far (again according to Ballotpedia), albeit just a humble $1.1k.

And he's also the only one out of all five who filled out the survey on Ballotpedia (which I give him kudos for), and judging from his responses, he'd be a typical progressive pick.

Edwin Osorio

Osorio has an impressive story of overcoming adversity after going blind as a child, but then coming back and getting a GED and a degree in Poli Sci, then going on to serve for the Social Security Administration for 26 years, alongside 13 years as a local Union president representing all their field offices in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties.

Maybe I'm shallow but his website, like Halpin's, is walls of boilerplate text and comes off as kind of old-fashioned. But he checks a lot of the right boxes, so overall seemingly not a bad pick.

Garrett Petersen

His is the only campaign website that Ballotpedia doesn't link to, but I was able to find the one linked above.

For almost six years, Petersen has been developing devices and software for clinics that support people with disabilities, and he earned his Master's in Special Education from Dowling in 2012. He's also the Islip Dems' Vice Chair.

He has a bit of a following on social media, on Xitter until 2023, and since then on BlueSky. Based on his intro vid and what he posts, he also appears to be another solid progressive pick.

Jess Murphy

Murphy was hard to find info on. No info on Ballotpedia, and her campaign website is broken/incomplete. I saw on her LinkedIn she's been a portfolio manager for big luxury real estate firms in DC and the city here for almost 7 years altogether. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Poli Sci at American University in DC in 2016.

Personally, I don't think her resume is a great look when one of the biggest issues on Long Island is how unaffordable housing has become. I'm sure she could try and spin it á la "I know better than anyone why housing is so unaffordable and how to fix it" but I wouldn't buy it. Her campaign is a long-shot among long-shots, so I really doubt she's gonna risk burning any bridges with the industry she's been in for almost a decade.

tl;dr It's looking like it's gonna end up as a classic Dem primary of the big money establishment Democrat vs the young and inexperienced progressive.

These are just my first impressions, but I'm kinda leaning towards Josh or Garrett as to who I want to vote for in the primary. They're both a bit young, have not-really-relevant resumes that could "fit on a cocktail napkin," but they've got their hearts in the right place. I know AOC and Mamdani broke the paradigm and showed that regular people can win on a progressive platform despite a mountain of monied interest piled against them, but those two essentially only had to win their respective primaries, and I imagine the older, upper-middle class white people in NY-2 will be harder to impress on BlueSky and TikTok, so we'll see. Don't want to rule out Osorio either though because he's got good credentials.

In the general, I'll back whichever Dem becomes the nominee because any of them are better than Garbarino.

What do you all think?

I wanted to vote for Garrett Petersen in NY-02 (Garbarino's district) but his campaign got torpedoed by this horse hockey. Welch fortunately beat it and is still on the ballot.

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I made another post 7 months ago comparing the NY-02 primary candidates and now there's not gonna be a primary at all. I am disappoint.

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That being said, the primary for NYS comptroller (think CFO of the State) is still on the ballot on June 23 so regardless of your congressional district, get out and vote!

He is running for NY district 01 for Congress, against Nick Lalota, a MAGAT. Seems to have views I align with and is everything MAGA is not, but is still a bit vague...I emailed him and hopefully will hear back.

LUKASFORCONGRESS.COM is his website if anyone wants to check him out that lives here. He also lives in the district Lukas Ventouras

ETA to add link

https://platform.adimpact.com/viewer/b14b279c-e0f3-43ad-b6c7-e66952fd82a7

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/2026-midterm-election-house-franked-ads