New York Today: Helping Women in Labor Vote

Please keep in mind that this is the one day where your voice can matter the most. In the end, only those who voted will really matter while those who didn't won't. Just remember this, if you aren't going to vote, then don't complain about the results especially when you sat out on the one day it really mattered. Seriously, I'm getting very tired every year of hearing complaints from the non-voters especially when they are pretty much the reason for low voter turnouts. Unfortunately, because of them, some candidates don't even have to feel any fear because they know that they won't stand in their way.

I spent my day traveling first from Manhattan to the Board of Elections in Queens to deliver my mother's absentee ballot application, then to my mother's rehab facility in Nassau County to deliver her ballot, and finally to the Farley Post Office in Manhattan which is open late, to assure her ballot could be postmarked with today's date. This was what it took for my disabled mother to be able cast her vote. I was lucky to have been able to do this for her, but there are probably thousands of other people at her hospital complex alone who will be unable to cast their vote because the requirements for obtaining a ballot are unreasonable for people who are disabled or taken ill. There must be some way in this day and age to bring the voting to them.

Kudos to the OB/GYN nursing staff. Voting is a very important right and one that every eligible person should be able to participate in. This is precisely one of the reasons that New York state needs updated voting legislation. Early voting (which is now available in 37 states plus the District of Columbia) would solve this dilemma and save these dedicated professionals precious time. It's time to get New York out of the past and allow New Yorkers to vote early like the majority of other Americans.

BRONZE AGE I walked at only seven months, A feat for any boy, Inspiring in my beaming dad Lush dreams of sporty joy. I might have had a storied career And made the TV news If only he hadn't gone ahead And bronzed my little white shoes. An athlete needs to be fleet of foot Like runners of Kubla Khan's, But how do you work up super speed When your shoes are made of bronze?

A big THANK-YOU to Jonathan Wolfe for reminding fellow New Yorkers to turn their ballots over when voting tomorrow. Your vote on all three proposals matters, especially Campaign Finance because we've all seen what that's about. And a word of praise to the Lenox Hill nurses for helping new moms get out the vote! -- be sure to let us know how more volunteers can get involved in 2020, when we'll need all hands on deck!

Seems to me that if a woman is pregnant, can count, and has any contact with the outside world, she would figure out approximately when the baby is due and say "gee, I better vote absentee rather than standing in long lines to vote when I'm nine months pregnant". I wonder if this "help" is just because of how critical this particular election happens to be. As to the Charter proposals, the first 2 sound like they will cost the City, and therefore the taxpayers, more money. Can you elaborate on where this money would come from?

I was in a Canadian hospital one voting day there and they had, it appeared to me, voting stations set up in the hospital. Wouldn’t that be a brilliant solution? Applaud the women doing this in New York and bringing attention to this fault in our system.

“Ms. Smith and Ms. Schavrien wanted more patients’ voices heard…” Tune of “One For My Baby and One More For the Road” I’m stuck here, you see There’s no way I can count except absentee. They’ve set it up so My voice can still be heard although I can’t go. They’ve helped me to vote Though I can’t tote This happy heavy load. So this vote’s one for my baby And her vote down the road Or his vote down the road. And our votes down the road.

I'm a woman, and I'd like to vote for birth control.

Thank you Ms. Smith and Ms. Schavrien for your humanity.

Wonderful. As obgyns, we have the power to make positive change in the lives of our patients, in AND out of the exam room. So if any of our patients can't make it to the voting booth on their own, we are picking them up and taking them there. We all need to make our voices heard tomorrow. On another note, who saw Alexandra Levine of NYToday running yesterday's marathon? Remarkable performance.