New York’s 29 electors are bound by rules and tradition dating back about 200 years. The electors fill out paper ballots and submit them into a wooden box. The electors must sign the ballots, which are counted manually at the state Capitol.
The Electoral College for the State of New York will convene in the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol in Albany (NY) on Monday, December 19, 2016 at 12:00 pm. All 538 Electors from all 50 States and the District of Columbia will officially cast their ballots for President and Vice President of the United States today.
The proceedings will be streamed live on www.governor.ny.gov. The proceedings will also be broadcast LIVE on all PBS stations and on cable systems across the state.
New York’s 29 electors are bound by rules and tradition dating back about 200 years. The electors fill out paper ballots and submit them into a wooden box. The electors must sign the ballots.
Who are New York’s 29 electors
All 29 of NY’s electors are pledged to Hillary Clinton who won New York State. Many of the electors are union leaders, elected officials, such as Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio), LGBT activists, and other Democratic party activists, including former President Bill Clinton.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and George Gresham, a Bronxite and leader of 1199 SEIU, will be in Albany tomorrow.
The 29 Hillary Clinton electors elected on November 8, 2016 when she won the state’s 29 electors.
Interestingly, Anastasia Somoza, a disability rights advocate, a grand-daughter of the notorious Nicaraguan dictator Anastacio Somoza is an elector from Manhattan. In the 1990s, Ms. Somoza and her twin sister, Alba, successfully sued the NYC Board of Education to force the city to provide services to disabled students.
What happens next
On Friday, Jan. 6, at 1 p.m., members of the House and Senate will meet in the House chamber to count those votes. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his role as the president of the Senate, is expected to preside over the count, during which every state’s vote is opened and announced in alphabetical order.
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