Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

Get New York out of the 19th Century and into the 21st

Do you think voting reforms like automatic registration of eligible voters; same-day registration of new voters; online personal voter registration and...

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Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

No good reason for senators to sit on early-voting bill and let it die

New York State voters still have time to call their senators to tell them to get behind early voting in New York.

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Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

The Voting Problem We Do Need to Fix

President Donald Trump's "tweet-egations" about massive voter fraud -- claiming that about 1 in 40 ballots were fraudulently cast in last year's presidential election -- are as well known as they've been thoroughly debunked.

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Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

NY State Senate Bill S2950

Support this bill in the NYS Senate! The text of the bill is on this page and you can complete the Action to show your support of it.

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New York State Assembly Working to Improve Voter Participation

The New York State Assembly passed a set of bills to improve voter participation by increasing voting opportunities and facilitating and modernizing the registration process...

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How unequal voter turnout and vote suppression helped elect Donald Trump

Though the election that shocked the pundits is now six months behind us, the data necessary to determine what exactly caused...

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Your Vote Didn't Count, and the Board Didn't Tell You in Time to Do Anything About It

More than 168,000 people cast paper ballots at the polls in last fall's presidential election because...

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Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

Letter: New York needs election reforms

As Americans, our most sacred right is choosing our representatives in government. It is one of the principles upon which our nation was founded.

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Assemblyman says 17-year-olds should vote!

Teenage voteland? That’s what Assemblyman Robert Carroll (D–Park Slope) hopes to create with his proposal to lower the voting age...

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Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

Update the ways New York votes

For those who missed the message of the 2016 election, the events that have followed have been loud reinforcement: People are fed up with government, they want change and, increasingly, they want to be part of that change.

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