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Election officials: Funding needed for registration bill

Local election officials hope the state will budget enough money to do automatic voter registration properly.

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Vote early and often as long you can change on Election Day

Consider the scenario: State opens polls for early voting. Millions cast ballots. Then, on election eve...

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From the Assembly: Assembly pushes to modernize elections and encourage young people to vote

If voting is one of the cornerstones of our democracy, then we should encourage voters — and future voters — to participate.

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The View from Here: The flawed New York voting system

This week, the Supreme Court struck down the Congressional district maps drawn by the North Carolina legislature, finding that African Americans were unduly concentrated...

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Editorial: Vote reform long overdue

Make registration, voting easier and more convenient to boost voter turnout...

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Election Reform Legislation

Last week in the NYS Assembly we passed legislation to modernize the state’s election process and make voting easier for more New Yorkers...

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New York Reform Measures Ignore Real Problems with State Elections

Mass voter confusion. Voter purges. Registration problems. These were all major problems associated with the 2016 New York presidential primary.

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State Senate, Cuomo should get voter reform done

The State Assembly passed a package of voting reforms last week. That’s good. But it has done that before and the legislation died in the Senate. That cannot happen again.

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Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

Assembly pushes to modernize elections and encourage young people to vote

If voting is one of the cornerstones of our democracy, then we should encourage voters – and future voters – to participate.

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Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

Voter Suppression in Deep-Blue New York

It's not just a Southern thing.

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