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The good news — NYPIRG reported that fewer students encountered serious problems in voting on Election Day in New York compared to prior years, based on the number and the type of calls made to the group’s statewide helpline. For 30 years, the hotline has been accessible to students who […]
The “Make Voting Easy” Act was proposed this past weekend by Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris to expand and generate early voting sites in order to prevent long lines in the next election that currently force voters to wait hours. Sen. Gianaris’ proposal requires one polling site for every 25,000 […]
The government watchdog group Common Cause/NY is urging voters and candidates to temper their expectations about getting final results on Tuesday for the sake of democracy. New York State has experienced massive early voting turn-out in the 2020 election, with an unprecedented number of absentee ballots as a result of […]
Thanks to early voting opening this week and an expanded eligibility for using absentee ballots, voting is well under way in New York. For Election Day, Nov. 3, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has created special hotlines for voters to report incidents of voter […]
On Monday Oct. 5, The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles issued a reminder about the voter registration deadline on Oct. 9 as well as instructions on how to register in person, online and by mail. Registration in person is only essential if someone does not currently have a […]
With the 2020 elections coming up in four weeks, there is considerable concern about how ballots will be cast and tallied. Initiatives by Governor Andrew Cuomo will allow New York residents to choose between three options for casting a ballot: early in-person voting before election day; in-person voting the day […]
As election season approaches in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the voting process. In most elections, voters only have to worry about brushing up on political candidates’ policy stances and their personal and political histories; in this election season, voters must also […]