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BOE’s Repeated Failure to Select Early Voting Site for Troy Voters a Violation of State Law
AG James Seeks Court Order for Accessible Site for June 2021 Primary    
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a lawsuit against the Rensselaer County Board of Elections (BOE) and its commissioners, Jason Schofield and Edward McDonough, for failing to provide voters in Rensselaer County with adequate and equitable access to early voting poll sites, as required by the New York’s Early Voting law . The lawsuit  filed in the Rensselaer County Supreme Court  alleges that when BOE and its commissioners selected early voting sites, they ignored criteria that was required by law to take into account when determining poll sites. Despite the availability of potential early voting sites in Troy  the most densely populated area of the county  BOE and its commissioners repeatedly refused to select an early voting site that was easily accessi ....

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