Since Democrats took control of the State Senate in 2018, the members of the majority have made election reform central to their agenda, passing a series of changes during the first week of the 2019 session, including early voting.
Now, as voters continue to await results from primary contests across the city, wondering whether their absentee ballot will get discarded, lawmakers are back this week in Albany where they are expected to move a handful of bills aimed at preventing a repeat of some of this summer’s chaos come November.
“What we witnessed in the primary and the continued counting and what may be the discarding of thousands of ballots is a form of disenfranchisement that we are not comfortable with,” said State Senator Zellnor Myrie of Brooklyn and chair of the Senate Elections Committee.
“As a body, we thought that it was important for us to respond this week with a number of proposals that we hope will give voters an opportunity to have their fundamental right to vote affirmed.”
Read and listen to this full story from WNYC/Gothamist: https://gothamist.com/news/state-legislature-seeks-to-clean-up-this-summers-election-chaos-in-time-for-november
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