And shore protection makes sense for Long Island, whether or not it provides an incidental benefit to beach house owners. You may use this form to designate your Fire Island address as your address for voting poses. Your mailing address can remain unchanged, if you wish, and you can even use the form to request an absentee ballot. If you are part of a household that wants to be politically active in both areas, simply have one family member register at Fire Island and the other at the winter address. As long as you don't vote more than once, the law does not care where you vote from.
Politicians running for office, however, have a keen interest in the matter.
Simply because Fire Islanders will never get the attention they deserve until they begin to vote in large numbers. That was instrumental in stopping the Moses highway in the 1950s and in getting the Fire Island National Seashore established in the 1960s. Less than a thousand voters cast their ballots from Fire Island today. Not insignificant, maybe, but if we could raise that number to 3,000 . By the way, use the absentee ballot if you have to.