The upcoming vote for mayor and other municipal offices is the main event on Election Day, but New Yorkers will also weigh in on a ballot question that, if approved, would start the process of revising the City Charter and the State Constitution to move city elections from the current odd-numbered-year schedule and make them coincide with the year we pick presidential candidates. If that happens, we’ll be joining cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles that recently changed their calendars.

Lots of well-intentioned political leaders, including Governor Kathy Hochul , think it’s a great idea. I don’t.

“There’s not the voter participation that we should have in a country like the United States of America,” Hochul told me recently . “It is a privilege to vote, people shed blood for this

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