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Peekskill residents who are Ecuadorian citizens and eligible to vote in the country’s presidential election on Sunday, April 13, will go to a different location than they did for the February 9 election.
Due to the large number of voters (some 950 voters came out in February), the Ecuadorian consulate will be setting up polling districts in the city’s Youth Bureau at 828 Main Street, next to City Hall. This is the new location, overriding a flyer created by the consulate some months ago, pinning the location at that time as the Neighborhood Center at 4 Nelson Avenue.
This flyer from the Ecuadorian consulate has the incorrect location for voters in Peekskill. The new location is the Peekskill Youth Bureau at 828 Main Street.
“We will have staff at the Nelson Avenue building, directing voters to the new location,” said Fabiola Jimenz, who is second secretary at the New York Ecuadorian consulate. She also explained that it will be easier for people to vote this time because there are only two candidates running for the office of president of Ecuador.
Voters have from 9 a.m to 7 p.m. on April 13 to cast their ballot for either Daniel Noboa, the current president who visited Peekskill in September, or Luisa Gonzalez, who is looking to become the first woman president. Last month, Diego Borja, running mate of Gonzalez, came to Peekskill to meet with Ecuadorian community leaders.
In February, Noboa and Gonzalez were in a field of 16 candidates and neither garnered enough votes to secure the presidency.
The consulate will have some 15 staff on hand, along with the volunteers and political observers, which mirrors what will be happening in Ecuador in a hotly-contested election. Noboa and Gonzalez finished in a technical tie in February.
Noboa represents the National Democratic Action (ADN), a party he formed in 2023 to support his first presidential run. González is the candidate of the Citizen Revolution (RC) movement, which is headed by self-exiled former President Rafael Correa.
