ELECTIONS - There are two upcoming elections. Please make sure you are registered to vote.  Click here to check your party affiliation, election district and polling place, provided by the NY State Board of Elections.

Although only enrolled members of a party can vote in that party's primary election on September 14, 2010, registered voters may vote for any candidate of any party on Election Day, November 2, 2010.

There is a new voting system now being used in Suffolk County elections.

The Suffolk County Board of Elections and the state Board of Elections have websites that feature videos demonstrating the use of the Sequoia ImageCast voting machine that will be used in each of the Suffolk County polling places.

ABSENTEE BALLOT - There is a new absentee ballot application now in use in New York State, with a wider variety of acceptable reasons for absentee voting:

• Absence from county or New York City on election day

• Patient or inmate in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center

• Temporary illness or physical disability

• Permanent illness or physical disability

• Detention in jail/prison, awaiting trial, awaiting action by a grand jury, or in prison for a conviction of a crime or offense which was not a felony

• Duties related to primary care of one or more individuals who are ill or physically disabled