NEW YORK, NY (09/27/2018) (readMedia)-- Today, the New York City Board of Elections (NYCBOE) will certify the election results from the September 13th primary, in which Common Cause/NY and its partners received hundreds of calls, emails and tweets from New Yorkers who experienced trouble voting.
In response, Common Cause/NY will issue a 30-day notice to the Board for potential violations of the 2017 settlement over the purging of 200,000 voters from the rolls ahead of the presidential primary in April 2016.
After the press conference, Let NY Vote activists will attend the NYCBOE meeting.
Background:
In October 2017, the New York City Board of Elections (NYCBOE) settled a lawsuit with Common Cause/NY, admitting it broke state and federal law when it purged nearly 200,000 voters from the rolls ahead of the presidential primary in April 2016.
In the settlement, NYCBOE agreed to:
This year, Let NY Vote, formerly known as Easy Elections NY, formed as a statewide coalition of organizations & grassroots groups fighting to modernize New York's elections. The goal is to pass simple solutions in 2019 to improve our elections and remove barriers to registering and voting for all eligible New Yorkers.
The Let NY Vote coalition is made up of over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause/NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community. A full list is available at letnyvote.org.
WHO: | Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause/NY Jorge Vasquez, Associate Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF Amy Torres, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Chinese-American Planning Council Erika Lorshbough, Legislative Counsel at New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) Impacted Voters **list in formation** |
WHAT: | Rally to demand answers from the NYC Board of Elections. |
WHEN: | Thursday September 27, 2018 at 12:30PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) |
WHERE: | Outside the New York City Board of Election offices 42 Broadway Manhattan, New York |
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