Elections

The 2009 Primary Election is September 15, 2009. The General Election will be Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

To register to vote in New York State You Must:

be a U.S. citizen;
be 18 years old by December 31 of the year in which you file this form (note: you must be 18 years old by the date of the general, primary or other election in which you want to vote);
live at your present address at least 30 days before an election;
not be in jail or on parole for a felony conviction and;
not claim the right to vote elsewhere.

How to Register

You can register in person at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections
or at any New York State Agency-Based voter registration center
You can enter your name directly into the New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) mailing list database
You can call NYSBOE's 1-800-FOR-VOTE (367-8683) hotline to request a voter application
You can download a PDF version of the New York State Voter Registration Form
- Download English Form
- Download Spanish Form
- You can complete the form on-line by typing the neccessary information and selecting the appropriate boxes. Then you need to print the form and sign it. Alternately, you can print the form, complete it by hand, and sign it. Once the form is completed and signed, mail it to your county board of elections

Absentee Balloting

For more information on absentee balloting, see NYSBOE's Absentee Ballots page.

2009 Registration Dates¹

Primary Election
- Mail Registration - Applications must be postmarked not later than August 21 and received by August 26 to be eligible to vote in the Primary Election.
- In Person Registration - You may register at your local board of elections or any state agency participating in the National Voter Registration Act, on any business day throughout the year but, to be eligible to vote in the Fall primary, your application must be received no later than August 21.
- Change of Address - Notices of change of address from registered voters received by August 26 by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the primary.
General Election
- Mail Registration - Applications must be postmarked not later than October 9 and received by October 14 to be eligible to vote in the General Election.
- In Person Registration - You may register at your local board of elections or any state agency participating in the National Voter Registration Act, on any business day throughout the year but, to be eligible to vote in the November general election, your application must be received no later than October 9th except, if you have been honorably discharged from the military or have become a naturalized citizen since October 10th, you may register in person at the board of elections up until November 3.
- Change of Address - Notices of change of address from registered voters received by October 14 by a county board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for the general election.

¹ Taken from New York State Board of Elections website; 2009 Political Calendar (PDF, 175K) is available from the State Board of Elections.

Polling places in Brunswick are as follows:

District	Location	Address
1	Tamarac School	3992 NY Route 2
2	Mountain View Fire House	4 Shafter Avenue
3	Eagle Mills Fire House	627 Brunswick Road
4	Eagle Mills Fire House	627 Brunswick Road
5	Sycaway Fire House	566 Hoosick Road
6	Sycaway Fire House	566 Hoosick Road
7	Keyes Lane Community Center	18 Keyes Lane
8	Brunswick Town Hall	336 Town Office Road
9	Tamarac School	3992 NY Route 2
10	Keyes Lane Community Center	18 Keyes Lane

Click on the address to be taken to a Mapquest map of the location.
Polling hours are 6 am to 9 pm.
Map of voting districts in the Town of Brunswick from the Rensselaer County Board of Elections (PDF, 320K)

Links and other information

Rensselaer County Board of Elections

Website
Phone: 518/270-2990
Fax: 518/270-2909
Location: Ned Pattison Government Center (Rensselaer County Office Building), Troy, NY 12180 - 1st Floor

New York State Board of Elections

Website
Phone: 518/474-6220
Location: 40 Steuben Street, Albany, NY 12207-2109

League of Women Voters - nonpartisan voter information

National website
State website
- Phone: 518/465-4162
- Fax: 518/465-0812
- Location: 35 Maiden Lane, Albany, NY 12207

Project VoteSmart - nonpartisan voter information

Website
Phone: 888/VOTE-SMART (888/868-3762) M-F 7-5 Mountain time
List of presidential candidates for 2008

FactCheck.org - nonpartisan voter information

Website
Phone: 202/879-6700 (Annenberg Public Policy Center)
"The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels." (From FactCheck.org's About Us page)

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