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The citywide elections may be less than two years away, but that hasn't stopped a group of mysterious supporters from pushing Councilman Leroy Comrie (D - St.

The 2017 New York City elections are for the three citywide posts of Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller; the five Borough President positions; all 51 City Council seats; the Brooklyn and Manhattan District Attorney posts; and other down ballot offices like some civil court judges and some district leader positions.

Three potential mayoral candidates want the city to implement «instant runoff voting» ahead of the next citywide election.

The NYC Council has identified instant runoff voting — and the end of citywide runoff election — as one of several dozen budget and legislative priorities in Albany.

Cat's campaign manager, Eben Bronfman, despite working on non-competitive elections with District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, was somehow hired to manage a citywide election that could have taken off in the right direction but never did because Bronfman's strategy emphasized media outreach and press events instead of organizing boots on the ground for a grassroots GOTV operation.

The next citywide election is three years away, but in the first campaign filing of the 2017 election cycle, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is sitting on the largest campaign war chest of any politician in the city.

At 7:30 a.m., NYC Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, NYC Votes, the New York Immigration Coalition, the Department of Education, and the Board of Elections host «Student Voter Registration Day» at over 60 schools citywide.

For the three citywide positions of Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, New York City's charter instead provides for a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollars.

«It would've been a full citywide runoff,» he said, «and considering the paucity of actual enrollees in the Reform Party, its very easy to field candidates when you need such a small number of signatures and then open the Board up to significant elections responsibilities and a potential runoff.»

The offices up for election are the three citywide posts of mayor, comptroller, and public advocate; the five borough president positions; all 51 City Council seats; and two district attorneys (Manhattan and Brooklyn).

Other major elements include a $ 500,000 investment to protect against election hacking, a $ 4.3 million investment to finance a campaign to increase citywide participation in the 2020 U.S. Census and a new requirement that all commissioners and individuals who report to the mayor disclose all of their meetings with lobbyists.

«We regret the inconvenience the councilman experienced, or any voter, but this is not indicative of a widespread issue,» Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan told the Observer, noting that the agency oversaw the compiling of 5,600 registers citywide this year.

Since some panels — the Citywide Council on High Schools for one — attracted lots of candidates, other community boards did not have enough candidates to fill the available slots — let alone hold a competitive election.

Indeed, public records show that the politically active Capoccia also doled out campaign contributions — $ 13,000 in a citywide election cycle — to a range of politicians, including former city council member Melinda Katz, who headed the council's influential land - use committee.

Looking ahead to the general election, Christine Quinn gets the nod from a majority of voters citywide against Republican Joe Lhota.

There are no other citywide primary debates, with not enough competition for any of the Republican citywide nominations or for the Democratic nominations for Comptroller or Public Advocate, where the two incumbents are set to cruise into the general election.

Under the current system for the city's three citywide primaries — mayor, comptroller and public advocate races — if no candidate receives 40 percent of the vote, then the top two candidates face off in a runoff election, as mandated by state law.

There was also no Republican primary for the other citywide positions of Public Advocate and Comptroller — the general election GOP nominees will be J.C. Polanco and Michel Faulkner, respectively.

Democrat Adam Baumel has filed with the state Board of Elections to challenge Malliotakis for the 64th Assembly District, alleging the Republican has been neglecting the constituents who elected her as she runs for citywide office.

In a letter sent to the City's Campaign Finance Board Wednesday, NYC Deserves Better and Tusk argue that the millions of dollars the Campaign for One New York has already spent were «used to further [de Blasio's] political agenda,» and therefore «should count toward the board's 2017 Citywide election spending limits.»

The Democratic nominee in the 2009 general election, John Liu won 76 % of the citywide vote on Tuesday, November 3.

Keep an eye on some of the councilors who have run for at - large seats, which means they have already been successful in a citywide election.

Also, in a year without any citywide or statewide races, the city's Board of Elections would be accused of ineptitude no more than four or five times.

The mayor earned his third term with 557,059 votes, or 50.6 percent of the total vote, citywide compared to Thompson, who had 506,717 votes, according to the city Board of Elections.

Results of a Survey of All Candidates for Citywide Office In a survey conducted by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Junior Board, candidates in the 2009 New York City elections for Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller provided answers to questions covering a variety of controversial issues that affect local public schools....

Ahead of city elections in May, the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools has released a powerful platform uniting their call for equal opportunities in the classroom with citywide demands for economic and racial justice.

Citywide elections would be no better, as teachers unions have a proven track record of dominating such elections.