Election 2020
COVID Saps Efforts to Increase Voter Registration
Roshan Abraham |
Growth in the voter list is running at half the 2016 pace.
2020 elections
Does NYC Need Drop-Boxes to Survive Election 2020?
Roshan Abraham |
Following a chaotic June 23 primary count in which more than 84,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated, some lawmakers are pushing for new options for voters who want to avoid polling places.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: New York Needs Its Own Voting Rights Act
Timothy Hunter |
‘We have the opportunity to protect our democracy by passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York.’
Government
New York’s New Accessible Absentee Ballots Aren’t Accessible Enough, Voters Say
Ethan Stark-Miller |
New Yorkers with disabilities had mixed reactions to the accessible absentee ballot option that the state Board of Elections (BOE) implemented for the June 23 primary.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Want Young People to Vote? Let Them Organize Themselves
Maya Vesneske and Olivia Brady |
‘In our conversations with Gen Z New Yorkers about what keeps them from the polls, they cite three main factors: socioeconomic barriers, a sense of personal or community disenfranchisement, and a lack of civic education.’
2020 election
Officials and Advocates Agree on Plan to Make June 23 Voting More Accessible
Ethan Stark-Miller |
While advocates are happy they won this concession, it only applies to the June 23 primary. A lawsuit to make absentee voting in future elections accessible is ongoing.
‘What Are Those Questions?’ Hispanic Voters Say They Lacked Information at the Polls
Edwin Martínez for El Diario |
‘I was clear that I would be voting for the Public Advocate and the Queens District Attorney, but I did not know that there would be all these strange questions and other things about the courts, so what I did was choose all the Democrats I saw who were women,’ one voter told El Diario.
Elections
It’s National Voter Registration Day. Why Should Registered Voters Care?
Jarrett Murphy |
The big wrinkle for registered voters concerns the 2020 elections.
Agenda 2019
Opinion: NYC Can Choose a Better Democracy With Ranked-Choice Voting
Anya Malkiel |
‘Ranked Choice Voting is a simple but powerful change to our election system that will ensure those elected to office have the support of a majority of their electorate—and are responsible to a broad base, not just the loudest few.’
Agenda 2019
In New York, Where You Live Can Determine How Hard it is to Vote
Henry Kanengiser |
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.
