As Hackers Target U.S. Voting Machines, We Need Leaders Who’ll Put Country Over Party
“If there has ever been a clarion call for vigilance and action against a threat to the very foundation of our democratic political system, this episode is it,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told senators in May.
Why New York should let younger people vote
A group of high school students in New York are trying to change our democracy for the better — and they can't even vote yet.
Voting Reform Advocates Say Cuomo Can Do More Through Executive Order
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Monday expanding the list of New York State agencies required to provide voter registration assistance and creating a task force to oversee implementation of the program.
Judge Clears Way for Trump's Voter Fraud Panel to Collect Data
A federal judge on Monday cleared the way for President Trump's commission on voter fraud to proceed in gathering personal data on the nation's voters...
Albany needs to pass reforms to make voting easier
The State Legislature passed a bill with bipartisan support to automatically register people to vote. Last week, the governor signed it, making the state the ninth to enact automatic voter registration. Sorry, that wasn’t New York. It was Rhode Island.
The Case for Courage: Fight for voting rights, not just for yourself but for your neighbor, too.
The catastrophic first months of the Trump administration have caused countless Americans to ponder, aloud or to themselves, what they can do to save the nation from the looming grip of authoritarian rule...
New York expands access to voter registration forms
Cuomo orders all state agencies to make registration papers available, provide application assistance
The Strange Phenomenon of Voter Self-Suppression
From the moment the president announced the creation of a panel to examine voter fraud and elections, voting-rights advocates warned that the real purpose of the commission was to suppress lawful votes.
The Voter Purges Are Coming
The Trump administration's election-integrity commission will have its first meeting on Wednesday...
America steals votes from felons. Until it stops, our democracy will be weakened
Felony disenfranchisement bars roughly 6.1 million citizens from voting – one in 13 black Americans. Trump’s ‘electoral integrity’ commission is silent