The second day of early voting on Sunday smashed the records set in the 2022 midterms and 2020 general elections throughout New York City.

By the end of the Sunday, 27,581 votes had been cast in the Bronx, which historically has been on the low end of turnout, and over 77,033 ballots cast in Brooklyn.

Citywide, 257,860 early voting check-ins took place at the over 158 locations opened with extended hours for the first time this election season.

The numbers eclipsed the results at this point during the 2022 midterm elections where there were 97,155 check-ins city wide with just over 9,000 votes cast in The Bronx and just 26,800 votes in Brooklyn.

And while beating a midterm turnout with a general election maybe expected, the voting figures are also eclipsing the 2020 turnout figures, which total at this time last year only barely exceed the midterms with just over 100,000 check-ins during the second day of early voting, with 39,000 early votes in Brooklyn and 16,000 early votes in the Bronx.

According to the Board of Elections, that year was not a good representation of the turnout early voting could bring, and that this year could be the new baseline of what turnout could look like.

"Now we are seeing far less absentee ballots than we saw in 2020. It was its own unique election, we were coming out of the pandemic not quite yet and so it really did have its own separate cadence," said Board of Elections Executive Director Michael J. Ryan.

Ryan tells News 12 they are encouraged by the high turnout, hoping to cut down on the long lines typically seen on election days in the past.

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