TROY, N.Y. — Outside the Ned Pattison Government Center Tuesday morning in Troy, voting advocates called on the Rensselaer County Board of Elections (BOE) to make early voting more accessible
Advocates are stepping up efforts for more early voting sites in Troy.
The push is being led by the League of Women Voters of Rensselaer County, which alleges the County Board of Elections is refusing to make early voting accessible and equitable to minority and low income voters. It comes about a month after the state attorney general’s office urged an expansion of early voting sites.
Renée Powell, President of the Troy Branch of the NAACP, leveled some harsh allegations Tuesday. What we re experiencing here in Rensselaer County is textbook voter suppression. voter suppression is defined as an effort to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting. And this tactic is being used to make it difficult for people in the Black and brown and low income communities to exercise their right to vote. This coalition has been communicating with the Rensselaer County Board of election commissioners for at least three years to c