Julie Kerr 5/1/19 Julie Kerr 5/1/19

MANY BLUE STATES HAVE POOR VOTER RIGHTS RECORDS TOO

On the morning of last year's mid-terms, Salem Almaani was already in line at Raices Times Plaza Senior Center in Brooklyn, New York, when the polls opened at 6 a.m. This was…

Julie Kerr 4/30/19 Julie Kerr 4/30/19

De Blasio Offers City Board of Elections $75 Million for Early Voting (With a Catch)

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is attempting to pressure the city’s Board of Elections to select at least 100 sites for early voting — nearly three times the number required under state law.

Julie Kerr 4/30/19 Julie Kerr 4/30/19

De Blasio to the Board of Elections: Take $75M to Open 100 Poll Sites for Early Voting

Starting in late October, New Yorkers will have the chance to head to the polls for a nine-day period before Election Day. But even with that victory for progressives that the state legislature pushed…

Julie Kerr 4/26/19 Julie Kerr 4/26/19

New York City Board of Elections Posted All Voters' Names, Addresses and Party Affiliations On Its Website

For the first time in its history, the New York City Board of Elections has published voter enrollment data on its website, including…

Julie Kerr 4/26/19 Julie Kerr 4/26/19

In New York, Where You Live Can Determine How Hard it is to Vote

The 2018 midterm elections saw huge turnout across the country, the highest rate in a midterm election for more than 50 years. New York City was no different…

Julie Kerr 4/19/19 Julie Kerr 4/19/19

Letter: Voting rights for parolees

Long ago, New York State abolished its debtors’ prisons. Locking debtors up virtually guaranteed that their debt would remain unpaid. Today the state has the opportunity to do away with another form…

Julie Kerr 4/18/19 Julie Kerr 4/18/19

A new civil-rights movement

There are plenty of reasons to be angry about voting rights.In Florida, Republican lawmakers are trying to keep people with criminal records from voting, as I explained

Julie Kerr 4/12/19 Julie Kerr 4/12/19

Opinion: There Is No Good Reason Prisoners Can’t Vote

At a forum in Iowa last weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gave what has become a standard answer for Democrats on the question of felon disenfranchisement.

Julie Kerr 4/11/19 Julie Kerr 4/11/19

Report: Voter Rolls Are Growing Due To Automatic Voter Registration

The United States is almost alone among industrial countries and other democracies in putting most of the onus of registering to vote on individual voters, a sometimes cumbersome process…