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Fall
Election Season is Upon Us

We are about to head into fall election season which is a great time for a Voter Registration/Voter Education check up. You can use the League's

Vote 411 site to check your registration status, learn what is on your ballot, find information about candidates and learn about LWV candidate forums for races in your area. Additional information also appears below and on the voter information and resources page.

Candidate Forums 

The League only sponsors candidate forums for contested elections. Because the Town of New Castle Town Supervisor and Town Board Member candidates are running unopposed, there will be no candidate forum for that election. 

LWV New Castle is sponsoring a candidate forum for our neighbors in the Town of Pound Ridge. Both candidates for the Pound Ridge Town Supervisor position, Kevin Hansan and John McCown, and three of the four candidates for the two open Town Board Member positions, Peter Avellino, Diane Briggs and Daniel Paschkes, will participate. The forum will be conducted webinar style on Zoom on Tuesday, September 30 at 7 pm. To register to attend the forum, please use this link:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tKr4FwdqSYCVFb4jnt_Pgw. The forum will also be available to watch on the New Castle Community Media Center YouTube channel beginning on October 1. 

Questions posed during the forum will be drawn from submissions from members of the community. LWVNC will review questions submitted by community members and will use the submissions to identify the topics of interest and generate a set of questions covering as many topics as possible in the available time. To submit a question, please use this google form link: https://forms.gle/9PbUAMGbYZTnuMkv8 Questions must be submitted by Thursday, September 25 at noon.

Important Voting Deadlines 

General Election Tuesday, November 4, 2025; Early Voting Saturday, October 25 to Sunday, November 2, 2025 

• Saturday, October 25, 2025 (Golden Day, ten days before the election): Early voting begins (follow link for all early voting polling times and locations in Westchester County); last day for NYS voter registration form to be received by the Board of Elections, those with a NY.Gov ID may register using the new NYS Board of Elections Online Voter Registration portal.; last day for an early mail ballot application or an absentee ballot application to be received by the Board of Elections if requesting that the ballot be sent by mail.

• Sunday, November 2, 2025: Last day of Early Voting.

• Monday, November 3, 2025 (one day before the election): Last day to apply in person at the Westchester County Board of Elections (25 Quarropas Street, White Plains, NY 10601) for an early mail or absentee ballot.

• Tuesday, November 4, 2025 (Primary Election Day): In person voting only at your assigned polling location that may be found using the Westchester County Board of Elections Find a Polling Place webpage; last day to postmark a completed early mail or absentee ballot (must be received by Tuesday, November 11, 2025) or to submit an early mail or absentee ballot in person to the Westchester County Board of Elections or at any polling site throughout Westchester County by the close of the polls.

Now Live! Membership Renewal Through LWVUS ChapterSpot Portal

On February 3, the LWVUS ChapterSpot portal went live, creating a new procedure for joining the League or renewing your membership. All current members will be receiving an email from LWVUS inviting them to set up a Chapter Spot account. Memberships will now be rolling - expiring on the date of joining. If you set up your Chapter Spot account now, your information will load including the end date of your membership. For members who renewed through LWV New Castle in December and January, your membership is good through December 31, 2025. LWVUS will send you a renewal notice a few months prior to your membership expiration. This new membership renewal structure has shifted the membership category definitions to LWVUS - there will no longer be family memberships and each family member must join as an individual in the future. But don't worry - because the new LWVUS system allows you to pay what you can afford (subject to a minimum), you can elect to give your second family member the "additional member" discount that you have been receiving. Questions? Send us an email - lwvnewcastle [at] gmail.com and we're happy to discuss the new system. You can join or donate through our unique LWV New Castle membership link.

Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.

Where LWVNC Is  Engaging Today:

∙      We're Getting Voters registered and to the polls, because elections impact every aspect of our lives. 

∙      We're Creating Opportunities for citizens to come together to discuss issues and shape solutions for the future.

∙      We're Educating Citizens, giving them the knowledge and the tools  they need to use their voices to make a difference.

∙       We’re Supporting our Youth by offering our popular programs, Students Inside Albany and Running & Winning, as well as providing hands-on experience for Senior Experience and  Youth Interns. 

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