YOUR LOCAL VOTING BOOTH — In an unprecedented move to both combat the invasive spotted lanternfly and increase voter turn out, the New York City Board of Elections announced that city residents will be granted an additional vote in upcoming primary elections for every 50 lanternfly carcasses they turn in at their polling site.
“It’s a win-win situation, definitely for you and the environment, and hopefully for whoever you’re supporting,” said Board of Elections president Aaron Gunther.
There are strict rules to capitalize on the new ruling: voters are not allowed to bring stockpiled lanternflies that have sat in their freezers. Only lanternflies squashed in this year qualify. Lanternflies must be dead but recognizable—bringing the mere shambles of multiple bugs will only count as one corpse. Voters must keep the dead bugs in a sealed container to voting sites, where special machines can count their bounties.
Gunther and the rest of the election board hopes the initiative will be successful. “If this works, we hope to continue the same thing next year for the mayoral primaries and the new Joro spider.”
To find your poll site, head on over to NYCvotes.org. For more information about what’s on the ballot, check out ballotpedia.org to start.
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