For the first time ever, New Yorkers had the chance to vote early last November. And next year, they will get to do it again.

• Early Voting in New York Was a Success, Officials Say

The locations, however, might change.

"I understand that people may be used to coming to schools," said Erica Rand Silverman, co-president at the Parent Association at P.S. 116 in Manhattan, "but we don't want strangers walking through our hallways where our four-year-olds are."

The Board of Elections is evaluating a proposal from the mayor's office to discard schools as early voting sites after some parents complained about the disruption it meant for students.

"They need the time to do what they do in their education," said Jeff Yates, member-at-large at the Parent Association at M.S. 167 in Manhattan. "Nine days of early voting it's just too often and too frequent."

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Silverman and Yates came to the Board of Elections on Tuesday to support a list of alternatives to schools created by the Mayor's Democracy NYC initiative.

The list of 53 potential new sites includes residential buildings, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and City University of New York (CUNY) facilities, and hospitals like Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

City Hall expects the board members to confirm whether these sites are suitable and available.

"We are asking for their commitment to actually work with us," said Laura Wood, special counsel at Democracy NYC. "They've said they want to, let's see if that's really true. And let's see if we can really work together with the amount of time that we have to make early voting even better."

• The First Few Days of Early Voting in NYC Were Surprisingly Free of Problems

New York will see four early voting periods in 2020.

The first citywide election will be the Democratic primary for president on April 28.

"The calendar is not our friend for any of these endeavors," said Michael J. Ryan, executive director of the New York City Board of Elections. "We've added nine days of early voting before each election event. So we will do whatever we can reasonably and prudently do in advance of every election event."

About 60,000 New Yorkers voted early on Election Day last month.

There were 61 polling sites across the city, 33 of them in school buildings. 

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