I'm Ryan Lerr on WMLIC. Good morning again, everyone. Well, everybody is already talking

about next year's presidential election and that'll be part of the context when we have

Cassidy Hutchinson on later in the show. But this year's election is now underway. Yes,

there is an election this year. And in our area, it matters a lot. The whole New York

City Council is up for reelection and with all the issues going on in the city and you

know what they are, that matters a lot. The whole New York City Council is up for election

and the whole New Jersey legislature is up for election. So now we're going to preview

the election on the New York side. There are also a couple of ballot questions which you

will see. I was looking at my parents' absentee ballot over the weekend with them and their

ballots and saw that there were these two ballot questions that I hadn't known about before.

And if I didn't know about them, you probably didn't know about them. So we're going to

explain the ballot questions and talk about the New York side of election day right now.

And then in a few days we'll do a New Jersey one. But with us right now is WNYC Senior Political

correspondent, none other than Bridget Bergen. Hi Bridget. Good morning Brian. And thanks for

helping with the membership drive pitching yesterday. Now you got your journalist hat back on.

So wait, city council elections are happening again. Didn't we just elect them two years ago

and we elected Mayor Adams? Exactly. I know. It's so confusing. It's off cycle. And that is because

something that we've talked a lot about over the past year and that is redistricting all of the

lines for these city council districts had to be redrawn based on the latest census data.

And so that meant some of these districts shift a little bit. It's very important before

you go out to vote. You should make sure that you check and know who you're voting for because

there is a chance that in some cases that you may be in a different city council district than you

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