New York Voting Records online consist of voter registration lists. 

In the United States voting rights have always come with limitations. In the 1700s and early 1800s, voting rights were restricted primarily to white men who owned property and some states restricted voting rights even further.

During the 1800s voting rights restrictions were gradually reduced and voters didn’t need to own property and, after 1870, race was not a qualification to vote. Some states still restricted voting through poll taxes (a tax paid to vote which affected the less affluent), literacy tests, all-white primaries, and language requirements.

The 1900s saw the greatest expansion of voting rights including:

• rights were extended to women (1920)

• the Voting Rights Acts to prevent additional prohibitive voting laws (1965)

• poll taxes were banned in the U.S. by the Supreme Court (1966) 

• the right to vote for anyone 18 years old or older (1971)

• protection for language minorities (1975)

• protection for people with disabilities (1982)

• and simplified voter registration (1993).

Voting records may include:

• name

• physical description of person

• age

• gender

• registration date

• dates voted

• residence

• marital status

• property ownership

• occupation

• place of birth

• citizenship status, if naturalized, date, court

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New York Voting Records online statewide

New York –  New York State, Address Notification and Absentee Ballot Application Cards, 1944, at Anc$

New York Voting Records online by County

Broome County – Voting Registers – Certificates of Election and Register of Civil Officers, 1821-1885, at FS

Cayuga County – Election Returns, 1799-1817, at FS

Cortland County – Voting Registers – Cortland County Poll List Town Meeting, Feb. 16, 1847 and Nov. 6, 1849, at FS

Cortland County – Voting Registers – Register of Electors, Scott, Cortland County, N.Y., 1859-1880, at FS

Dutchess County – Election Books, 1799-1849, at FS

New York County – Voting Registers – A Copy of the Poll List : of the Election for the Representatives for the City and County of New York, at FS

New York County – Voting Registers – A Copy of the Poll List, of the Election for Representatives for the City and County of New York : Which Election Began on Monday the 7th Day of March and Ended on Friday the 11th, of the Same Month, in the Year of Our Lord 1768, at FS

New York County – Voting Registers – A Copy of the Poll List, of the Election for Representatives for the City and County of New York, 1761, 1768, 1769, at FS

New York County – Voting Registers – A Copy of the Poll List, of the Election for Representatives for the City and County of New-York : Which Election Began on Monday the 23d Day of January, and Ended on Friday the 27th, of the Same Month, in the Year MDCCLXIX. Alphabetically Made, at FS

New York County – Voting Registers – Record of Naturalized Voters Registered, 1872-1878, at FS

Cayuga County – Voting Registers – Election Returns, 1799-1817

Ontario County – Voting Registers – Election Returns, 1799-1841, at FS

Otisco – Voting Registers – Tombstone Inscriptions from Hillsdale Cemetery : Town of Otisco, Onondaga County, N.Y., at FS

Queens County – Voting Registers – Transcript of the Enrollment Books for the Enrollment of 1910, Made in the City of New York … [for The] Borough of Queens : First and Second Assembly District [from] Supplement to The City Record, Official Journal, New York, Saturday December 31, 1910, at FS

Seneca County – Voting Registers – Volume 6: Bible, Cemetery and Church Records, 1746-1927, at FS

Seneca County – Volume 6: Bible, Cemetery and Church Records, 1746-1927, at FS

New York Voting Records online by City

Catlin – Voting Registers – Town of Catlin, Chemung County, New York Perfected Register of Electors : Made by the Board of Registry of Said District October 29, 1861 Filed in the Town Clerk’s Office, October 29, 1861 and Assessment Roll, Town of Catlin, 1873, at FS

Truxton – Vital, Church, Census, and Voting Records, Town of Truxton, and Deaths, Town of Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York, Miller’s Settlement Church (Cortland County, New York), at FS