Brooklynites cast the most ballots during early voting for the presidential election, besting all four other boroughs with a total of 373,270 voters checking in at polling sites, according to the city's Board of Elections.
BOE's preliminary figures show that Kings County accounted for more than a third of all early votes in the city, which came in a total of 1,119,056 by Sunday evening.
One local state legislator, whose bill introduced early voting to the state in January, said that these numbers proved that making voting easier will bring out more more people to exercise their democratic rights.
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Photo by Craig Hubert Brooklynites cast the most ballots during early voting for the presidential election, besting all four other boroughs with a total of 373,270 voters checking in at polling sites, according to the city's Board of Elections.
BOE's preliminary figures show that Kings County accounted for more than [...]