According to preliminary numbers released by the city's Board of Elections on Friday evening, 480,338 New Yorkers have already cast their ballots across the first seven days of early voting. Brooklyn is currently leading the other four boroughs with 156,390 votes cast, followed by Manhattan with 144,269, then Queens with 107,743. Staten Island and the Bronx lag far behind at 34,106 and 37,830, respectively.
You've got to be where the electorate are, Evans told the Guardian. This is one of the biggest apps that is used across the country and across the word. I think it's right to be there, to be talking to people. And from a party political point of view, if you're crowded out and you're not speaking to people, that space will get filled. Hearing 20% of someone versus nothing from someone else is huge.