If you are confused about the New York State elections, so is everyone.
The dates have been shifted because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of you have already received absentee ballots for the Democratic Presidential primary to be held in June. The Board of Elections printed them before most of the candidates dropped out, so you will see a list of names including Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders etc. in column 1 on the right-hand side. If you vote for a candidate who has already dropped out, you are wasting your vote.
As of this date, only Biden is in the race. In columns 2 through 8 are the names of delegates to the National Democratic Convention (this is not the same as the Electoral College). They are pledged to the candidate preceding them in column 1. You can vote for any seven of them. It makes sense to vote only for the seven pledged to your candidate.
You still have plenty of time to vote before the June 23 deadline, but do vote. If the above doesn’t clarify things, you can call Martin Smolin or Annette Leyden .