2019 Charter Commission
Chairwoman Gail Benjamin heads a charter revision process that has the broadest remit of any panel in 30 years.
The 2019 commission began winnowing its work down to the questions that it will put on the ballot in November. And the focus discernibly shifted from the sweeping to the particular.
In the 2018 election and many before it, New Yorkers faced a voting hurdle unlike voters in most other major cities: a relatively low number of polling places, scattered unevenly through the city.
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