Early Voting and Other Changes to Election Laws Are Coming to New York

New York Times ^ | Jan. 10, 2019 | Jesse McKinley

[Olog-hai]

For years, the ways in which voters in New York have been stymied by the state’s antiquated voting laws have stood in stark contrast to the state’s liberal reputation.

During last year’s contentious midterm elections, New York was the only state in the nation that held separate state and federal primary elections, a bifurcation that almost seemed designed to suppress voter turnout — which is generally thought to favor incumbents.

Early voting? Voting by mail? Same-day voter registration? All are fairly basic voting policies now found in many states, but not in New York.

But with Democrats now in control of both chambers of the State Capitol and the governor’s office, things are about to change. Legislative leaders said they intend to pass what they described as a voting reform package on Monday to overhaul the state’s voting laws, among the more restrictive in the nation.

The proposals are a veritable wish list for those who have blamed New York’s laws for driving down voter turnout. The measures include allowing early voting, preregistration of 16- and 17-year-olds and consolidating state and federal primary elections, which are now held in different months. […]

“This is just the beginning,” said Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens, the deputy Democratic leader in the Senate. “There’s a long list of issues that have been kept on the shelf by Republicans all these years. And the issues we’re handling in the first week are incredibly important, and there will be incredibly important issues in the second week and the third week and the fourth week.” …

[mewzilla]

Because NYS ain’t bleeding jobs, taxpayers, and House seats fast enough...

[mewzilla]

It isn’t just the ‘Rats. NYS GOP is an acronymic oxymoron. They are ALL uniparty.

[Gene Eric]

Not completely. We have decent representation in most counties.

But NY certainly the RINO a-holes.