Utica Politics Megathread - Police Shooting Fallout

[Kevinstat]

I have family who used to live in Livingston Manor, New York (part of the town of Rockland in Sullivan County) and my aunt and uncle now live in King Ferry, New York (so I assume in the town of Genoa in Cayuga County, New York, although King Ferry isn't even a census-designated place so it's tough to be certain).  My cousin Kellie used to live in what I seem to recall was the town of Groton, New York in Tompkins County, but in a part of that town near the village of McLean that was in the Dryden Central School District (she and her partner, now wife, were supportive of progressive candidates there).  School districts in New York often don't follow municipal lines, and the Dryden School District seemed from a Census Bureau map I looked at to include parts of seven towns in three counties (parts of Dryden, Groton and Caroline in Tompkins County, parts of Harford, Courtlandville and Virgil in Courtland County, and a tiny corner of Richford in Tioga County).  I remember asking my cousin how those elections worked and apparently people didn't vote in the same polling places they used for other elections but at the schools (I imagine absentee voting was also possible, but I'm not sure of that).  I recall having heard something about one not even having to be registered to vote, but I might be misremembering that or my cousin could have told me wrong there.

I started composing this post before looking at what the situation was in Utica.  I see that the Utica City School District is coterminous with the city, but there are a lot of school districts nearby that don't follow municipal lines.  Do you follow school board elections nearby at all, and know how it works there for people in different municipalities and counties to vote for School Board members?  (Two of the six towns bordering Utica if I've counted correctly are in Herkimer County rather than Oneida County, and all four of the school districts bordering Utica cross municipal lines, two cross county lines, and there are I think 10 other school districts covering parts of those six towns further away from the city.  It's a real hodgepodge, like it is in the Ithica area, but Utica itself unlike Ithica is coterminous with a school district.  The city and town of Ithica are both entirely in the Ithica City School District, but there are parts of eight other towns in that district, two of which are in a different county and none of which are entirely in that school district.)