Researchers Know How Dante De Blasio & Hundreds Of Other New Yorkers Voted gothamist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gothamist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
arrow Voters at Brooklyn Borough Hall on June 22, 2021 Scott Heins / Gothamist
New York lawmakers flipped the script at a hearing on election reform and voting rights on Wednesday, shining the light on voters and Election Day workers, to be followed by an interrogation of elections officials in September. The message at the first of a series of State Senate hearings was clear: Board of Elections officials are going to have a lot to answer for.
Members of the Elections Committee heard from more than two dozen people who shared stories of absent poll workers, confusing information from Board of Elections staff, and a sense that voters generally have lost confidence in the current system after a cascade of errors year after year.
Ranked-Choice Voting Allies And Foes Sound Off During Lengthy Hearing gothamist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gothamist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Ploy To Convince Republicans To Switch Parties Is Rankling The GOP
arrow The message scrawled across a mailer sent by Be Counted NYC.
The effort by a political committee to have more voters register with the Democratic Party ahead of the June primary has irked Republicans who see the push as a cheap way of luring more moderate voices to the party.
The effort is being spearheaded by Be Counted NYC (formerly NYC Votes, Inc.), a political committee launched by Lisa Blau, a Manhattan investor and the wife of Jeff Blau, CEO of The Related Companies. Critics have pointed out that the mailer is cleverly formatted to appear as though it came from the New York City Board of Elections.