It really depends on your local election laws and schedule. Here in California we usually don’t have an election in odd number years. This year was an exception, of course.
New York City is Everyone’s City! We in the midwest heard about that place all the time growing up. Movies, TV shows etc., so many occurred in NYC. Haha. Then 9/11, and wasn’t there an Everyone is a New Yorker kind of feeling?
I was a kid then, and I thought NYC was actually the capital of the US for awhile. But I was a kid, not a full grown adult.
I have enough to keep up with my local races as to whether I should vote and on what. Luckily, I do receive notices about elections. As well as ballotpedia is very useful.
It does sound as though these might be right leaning people who thought they could vote in NYC election. I always stereotype left leaning people as possessing more education, etc., and knowing better. A very sad commentary on the state of things. There again, someone else said that there were elections in KY, just not in that area. I live in an unicorporated area in St Louis County, and and St Louis City has mayoral races, but I cannot vote in those elections, though I often desperately long to do so….
Yes, it could have been Adams making a joke. Although there’s a risk when a public official makes jokes about the voters.
But my guess is there probably was a handful of voters who thought they could somehow vote in the NYC election despite living in Kentucky. The Republicans undoubtedly sent out nation-wide canvassing emails and letters, telling people “we need your help to stop Zohran Mamdani” and a few people misunderstood that they were being asked to contribute money not votes.
There was literally no ballot in our town. There were some issues in other townships, but there was no voting for us.
This sounds extremely plausible. Republicans ask for help when they just want money, and people misunderstood and tried to vote.
I found it refreshing that Kentucky didn’t have any elections in this off-year.
The last two states I lived in, it seemed like there was some race or proposition on the ballot every few months, particularly school bond/tax proposals.*
*“they voted it down the last three times, but if we keep at it, eventually they’ll get tired, and our pro-initiative folks will get it passed.”
Yes, its totally local. There were no statewide elections in Massachusetts on Nov 4, but many towns had local elections. Mine didn’t, which I had to double check because several friends & coworkers were voting that day.