By Yepoka Yeebo
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Most New York voters favor restoring two-term limits for elected officials, according to a poll by the New York Times released on Tuesday.
Nearly two years after Mayor Michael Bloomberg extended the limit on the city's elected officials to three terms to allow for his reelection, voters look poised to reverse the move, the paper found.
In November, voters will be asked whether to revert to two terms or keep three.
In the August poll of 892 New Yorkers, the Times also found that Bloomberg's actions intensified support for shorter term limits. Term limits were adopted in 1993 with 59 percent of the vote, but would pass today with 73 percent, the paper said.
At the time, Bloomberg said extending term limits gave voters more choices at the polls.
Alan Brodherson, 46, a lawyer who lives on the Upper East Side, told the Times he was considering voting for the two-term limit to avoid rewarding Bloomberg for what he considered a self-serving move.
“When the term limits were enacted, I thought it was a bad idea, but what was worse was the way Bloomberg went about overturning that law,” Brodherson told the paper.
“The way he handled it was not right.”
