NY election reforms would make it harder to toss absentee ballots
Updated Jan 10, 2021;
Posted Jan 10, 2021
Jonathan Lang inspects a ballot for The Onondaga Board of Elections which began counting ballots Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020 at their office downtown. 57,000 people in Onondaga County voted by absentee in the 2020 election.N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com
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New York senators this week plan to vote on legislation meant to make it easier for people to use absentee ballots, to ensure more of those votes are counted and to speed up the paper ballot count.
One key part of the proposal is meant to make it much harder for lawyers and politicians to scrutinize each paper ballot and toss it because of a stray mark or an unsealed envelope.
Why John Mannion was sworn in ahead of other NY senators
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
John Mannion, of Geddes, takes the oath of office in the New York State Senate.Source: Sen. John Mannion
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Syracuse, N.Y. John Mannion, a Democrat from Geddes, was sworn in last week as a newly elected state senator a couple of weeks before most of his other senatorial colleagues will take their oaths for the upcoming two-year term.
That’s because Mannion is filling a Senate seat that’s been empty since April. State election law allows him to fill the seat this year, even though the term he was elected to doesn’t begin until Jan. 1, according to Senate spokesman Gary Ginsburg.