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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll NYS election reform Constitutional Amendments are failing...
Modified redistricting rules (41-59)
Same-day registration (37-63)
No-excuse absentee voting (39-61)
Claustrum
(4,845 posts)If I have to choose only one out of the 3, that's the one I would pick.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)It is bad enough getting poll workers, someone had the bright idea to dump this out there on the same day.
We have early voting, if you can't get registered in ten days, then you're either lazy or you really don't care.
It's a nightmare now, why make it complete chaos.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)It is already quite easy to register to vote in NY.
You can even do it online: https://www.ny.gov/services/register-vote
Polybius
(15,465 posts)The media didn't cover them at all. I wasn't even sure that I voted the right way on those three.
Retrograde
(10,145 posts)Do NYS voters really think that in this modern era people have to show up at a specific polling place on election day to cast a ballot? WTF do they have against no-excuse mail voting?
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)710 absentee ballots were all mailed to one address before it was caught. Thank those zombie bloc voters.
[link:https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/local/2021/10/18/south-blooming-grove-voters-have-700-absentee-ballots-sent-one-home/8460267002/|]
electric_blue68
(14,923 posts)with a low turn out, plus people not knowing about it...
Bah!
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)you know that writing within the big box and numbers with writing. Depending on where you lived, there may have been more.
My county now customs prints your ballot on the spot when you come to vote.
The old machines had it right in front of you to read, now you have to read the entire ballot.