The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and North Fork will host virtual debates between candidates for the New York State Assembly and State Senate’s First Districts on Monday from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The debates will air live on SeaTV Southampton’s YouTube channel, and will subsequently be available for streaming there.
Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., the Democratic incumbent, and Peter Ganley, his Republican and Conservative Party challenger, will debate from 7 to 7:45 p.m. The League’s Estelle Gellman will moderate.
From 7:45 to 8:30 p.m., the League’s Cathy Peacock will moderate the debate between the Republican incumbent, State Senator Anthony Palumbo, and his Democratic and Working Families Party challenger, Skyler Johnson.
At each debate, the candidates will make opening and closing statements and answer questions, which can be sent in advance to Barbara McClancy, the League’s Voter Services Committee chairwoman, at [email protected].
Early Voting
Early voting will happen from Oct. 29 to Nov. 6. East Hampton Town residents will vote at Windmill Village, at 219 Accabonac Road in East Hampton. For Southampton Town, the site is the student center at the Stony Brook Southampton University campus, at 39 Tuckahoe Road.
On Shelter Island, the early voting site is the Youth Recreation Center at 1 Bateman Road, and for Southold Town, it’s the Southold Senior Center, at 750 Pacific Street in Mattituck.
Absentee ballot applications in English and other languages can be downloaded from the State Board of Elections website, elections.ny.gov, and must be mailed by Oct. 24 to the Suffolk County Board of Elections, P.O. Box 700, Yaphank Avenue, Yaphank 11980. Registered voters can also apply for an absentee ballot online, at absenteeballot.elections.ny.gov.
