Voting
Upcoming Elections
2025 Election Dates
Lansing Village – April 22, 2025
Tompkins County School Board Elections – mid-May*
Primary Election – June 24, 2025
Special Election for Tompkins County Legislature, District 3, June 24, 2025
General Election – November 4, 2025
*The Ithaca City School District (ICSD) may have another election later in 2025 on a capital improvement proposal.
VOTING INFORMATION
**Important Information Regarding Changes In Absentee Voting**
New York State has recently enacted a law that will change the ability of voters who have applied for an absentee ballot to vote in person on the voting machine.
In the past, voters who applied for an absentee ballot could change their minds and vote in person on a voting machine either during early voting or on Election Day. Their absentee ballots, if completed and sent in to the Board of Elections, would then be set aside unopened.
With this new law, voters who have applied for an absentee ballot may still go to the polls on Election Day, but they will no longer be able to vote on the machine. If they wish to vote in-person, it will be by affidavit ballot only. If you have any questions about this law, please call the Board of Elections at (607) 274-5522.
Additional details for this and future elections are posted on the
Tompkins County Board of Elections website
=> in the left-hand column, under the heading Political Calendars.
Voters’ Guide
Voters’ Guide
A Voters’ Guide for the Lansing Village Election, on April 22, 2025, will be available by April 11th at the latest!
VOTE411’s Voter Guide is a national, non-partisan election resource that provides a “one-stop shop” for election related information, including when, where, and how to vote, in-person or with an absentee ballot. Up-to-date information needed for each election, including how to register; candidate profiles; early and absentee voting opportunities; and election day polling places, dates, and times are also available.
A week to ten days before each election, voters can go to WWW.VOTE411.ORG and simply enter their home address to learn which elections are being held within their specific districts and the names and political parties of each candidate. Additional information about candidates, including their backgrounds, and answers to questions on their priorities and issues of concern to voters, will also be provided by the candidates who respond to their personal invitation, sent by the League, to participate.
In addition, VOTE411 includes information on public forums and debates. To find information on local forums hosted by the Tompkins County League, you can also check https://lwvtompkins.org/voting/#votingforums
Launched as a community service in 2006 by the League of Women Voters, VOTE411 has helped millions of people participate in elections, whether they are first-time voters or seasoned veterans at the ballot box.
Read More about Vote411 History => Our Favorite Vote411 Moments
Candidate Forums and Recordings
Thursday, October 17, 2024, 8 p.m. WSKG will host a debate between the candidates running for New York’s 52nd Senate District. The Democratic incumbent, NY State Senator Lea Webb will face her Republican challenger, Tompkins County Legislator Mike Sigler. The debate will be hosted by WSKG news director Tom Magnarelli and Ithaca reporter Aurora Berry. Tune in at 8 p.m. on WSKG-TV here, WSKG Radio here, or on our YouTube channel here.
CANDIDATE FORUM RECORDINGS
Cayuga Heights Village Election: Mayor
Monday, March 4, 2024, 7 to 9 pm – Candidates Forum, Kendal at Ithaca
Candidates: Meloney McMurry (former trustee), Linda Ann Woodard (incumbent)
VIDEO Recording of the FORUM is Here
Email questions before the event to: pres.tclwv@gmail.com Questions will be collected in writing from the in-person audience. We are unlikely to be able to accept questions from the online audience, but if we are able to do so via email during the evening, we will announce this before the event. Sponsored by LWV Tompkins County.
Ithaca City Thursday, June 8, 2023
are now available on our YouTube channel
link for All Candidate Opening Statements
link for individual Ward breakout sessions
link for Ward 1:
Kayla Matos, Cynthia Brock
link for Ward 2:
Aryeal Jackson, West Fox, Kris Haines-Sharp
link for Ward 3:
David Shapiro, Nathan Sitaraman
link for Ward 5:
Clyde Lederman, D. Jason Houghton
(2-year term)
Michelle Song, Margaret Fabrizio
(4-year term)
Links to Ithaca Voice audio recordings and articles about this Forum:
Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 Ward 5
LWV, Tompkins, often facilitates candidate fora in weeks before elections.
Upcoming fora and recordings of past fora are posted here.
Voting in Tompkins County
Tompkins County Board of Elections: http://tompkinscountyny.gov/boe
128 East Buffalo Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
607-274-5522
Provides a wide array of important information for voters including, local election calendars, offices to be filled, registration and absentee ballot forms and directions.
Board of Elections sources:
Check your registration status and find out where to vote https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov/
How to register to vote https://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingRegister.html
Absentee ballots https://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingAbsentee.html
Absentee deadlines https://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingDeadlines.html#AbsenteeDeadlines
Voter Registration Forms:
Tompkins Court House Annex
128 E. Buffalo St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Election District Maps
Download this map of City of Ithaca NY Wards
Tompkins County Election Districts and Maps
-> includes Polling locations
New York State Election District Maps (Assembly, Senate Congressional)
Redistricting
All of Tompkins County will be in the newly created:
52nd NY State Senate District
and
19th Congressional District (Federal U.S. House of Representatives)
For information about Redistricting 2021-2022 & People Powered Fair Maps NYS,
see the NY State League’s 2021-22 Redistricting
View the 2023 Assembly Plan Interactive Map Link Here
The League of Women Votes of Tompkins County (LWVTC) together with LWV of Cortland County worked intensively during the State redistricting process to ensure the voices of all members of our two counties were heard by the NYSIRC.
Find Your Elected Officials
Federal & State Officials
Tompkins County Elected Officials (list of all the Elected Officials)
Identify your Election Districts by:
Voting Contacts
Tompkins County Board of Elections
128 East Buffalo Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: 607-274-5522
New York State Board of Elections
40 North Pearl Street – Suite 5
Albany, NY 12207.
Phone: 518-474-6220; For TDD/TTY, call the NYS Relay 711
The League of Women Voters of Tompkins County
Voter Services Committee:
The League of Women Voters of Tompkins County, Voter Services Committee, needs new members! We have many requests for assistance. Please send a note if you are a member of, or would like to join, the League, and can help with one or more activities.
Contact: lwvtompkins@gmail.com