Voting began on October 29, and continues every day except Nov. 7, through Nov. 8, with ballot decisions about governor, Congress, several judges, and an environmental bond act. After the first day of voting there was anecdotal talk of a large turnout. Dina LaRose, of Palenville, helped with the polls in Ulster County, and the 19-year-veteran of working elections said in the Daily Freeman, “I’ve never seen this many people for a midterm." Kelly A. Miller-Simmons, Republican commissioner of the Columbia County Board of Elections said in the Register Star “For the size of the county, we think we’ll get a large turnout,” Miller-Simmons said. “We’ve planned for a good turnout.” Mid-Hudson News reported that most of the ballots cast Oct. 29 and 30 in Columbia County were from Democrats. Two-thirds of all the votes were made by Democrats on the first day of voting, and nearly three-quarters of the votes on the second day were cast by Democrats. Democrats cast 1,290 votes to the Republicans’ 209 while Conservatives cast 18 votes, Independence Party voters cast 29, Working Families registrants seven, Green Party voters cast three, and Libertarians had one vote. “Our party has been working hard to get people to the polls early and the numbers were evidence of the enthusiasm Democrats are feeling for our candidates,” said Sam Hodge, chairman of the Columbia County Democratic Committee. On the first two days of voting, 261,735 votes were cast statewide, Spectrum News reports. Voting on more than one day in New York only began in 2019, so there is no mid-term election to compare turnout. In the more popular presidential election of 2020, during the beginning of the pandemic, 422,166 votes were cast on the first two days of voting. There was at least one local glitch with the first days of voting: Mid-Hudson News reported in the City of Middletown the internet went down and the printers that spit out the actual ballots were also not working. A poll watcher announced a repair person was on the way to fix the problems, but his arrival time was unknown, and most people lined up to vote left to return, or not, some other time.