Vote DSA

In the 2026 New York primaries, NYC-DSA had candidates all up and down the ballot in overlapping districts, and canvassers kept getting asked at the door which socialist was on whose ballot. If you live on one side of a district line, you vote for one socialist for Assembly; cross the street and it’s a different one, and oh, there’s a State Senate candidate you can vote for too. Voters and normal people won’t be able to keep all that in their heads. So we built Vote DSA. Type your address, get your ballot and get your poll site.

How it works

Unlike the government’s poll site lookup, you just type your address and you’re immediately shown the DSA candidates running for Congress, State Senate and Assembly where you live. Then it points you to your early voting and Election Day poll sites. We heard from people out in the field that they were using our website when the government one was down.

Poll sites are re-checked against the NYC Board of Elections on every lookup, so if a poll site moves, we don’t send anyone to the wrong door. Tap the directions button and it opens your poll site in Google Maps.

We also encouraged people to share their ballot with an “I’m Voting DSA” image, sign up for text reminders and, of course, sign up to canvass. Chapter staff change the slate themselves with a “Push It Live” button.

By primary day we had logged over 20,000 lookups across the city, connecting voters not just to DSA-endorsed candidates and their poll sites but also mapping out areas for growth, where people were looking to vote for a socialist candidate but had none in their district.