League of Women Voters, legislators push for voting reforms

Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, joined with members of the League of Women Voters of New York on Tuesday to call for comprehensive voting reforms...

Election reformers make case for early voting

Advocates for election reform say voter turnout across the New York could be greatly increased by allowing citizens to cast their ballots early...

Lawmakers, advocates say reform is not dead at Capitol

State lawmakers and lobby groups say Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in error when he said that there was no political will to enact reforms in 2017...

Democrats Push Voting Reforms

Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly on Tuesday pushed for measures that would make it easier to vote in New York, bills that fell by the wayside during the budget talks...

There's a Long List of Voting Reforms New York Can Pass

Voter participation has been on the decline across the country for decades now, but is especially poor in New York, where only 29 percent of those eligible cast their votes...

New York State Legislature Has Unfinished Business

There are some proposals for which common ground can be found, and others that are so important to New Yorkers that lawmakers need to put...

A Year After Brooklyn Voter Purge Scandal, a Timeline of Action and Inaction

For many New Yorkers, Donald Trump's victory last fall is the only news they care about from last year's elections. But one year ago today, voters in this heavily Democratic town were heading to the polls...

What’s Left To Do In The Post-Budget Session

Gov. Andrew Cuomo more or less got what he wanted in the $163 billion budget agreement approved on Sunday by lawmakers...

Report: New York ranks 41st in voter turnout in 2016

New York ranked 41st in the country for voter turnout in the 2016 general election, with just more than 57 percent...

Advocates Urge State Lawmakers to Budget for Voting Reforms

For the second year in a row, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo included electoral reform in his State of the State address in January...