Early voting is officially underway in New York City, kicking off a critical stretch in the primary election season. Voting starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. Find your nearest poll site here.

Ranked-choice voting could once again decide New York City’s mayoral primary, four years after the process was slow and marred by a major tabulation error.

Go to findmypollsite.vote.nyc to locate your early and Primary Day voting sites and also your sample ballot, so you can think things through before getting inside the voting booth and skipping down-ballot races or guessing or texting a friend.

Primary elections let voters registered with a political party choose their party’s candidates for the general election. In New York City, only voters registered with a party that’s holding a primary can vote in that party’s race, according to the city’s Board of Elections.

I n most parts of the country, this June is a moment of quiescence in the campaign cycle. The president has just been inaugurated. Many House and Senate candidates haven’t declared yet. Homes are unmolested by flyers; television watchers are unbothered by advertisements.

Early voting starts today in Central New York’s primary elections. The early voting polls are open from 9 a.m. today until Sunday, June 22. Election Day in the primary is Tuesday, June 24. Who’s on the ballot?

Socialist Zohran Mamdani is surging and voters can rank five candidates in the crowded field. But will the anti-Cuomo candidates cooperate?

Get to know the Democratic candidates in the NYC mayoral election and where they stand on the issues with these in-depth interviews.