NEW YORK, NY (10/03/2019) (readMedia)-- With three weeks until early voting begins, NYS Elections Chair Senator Zellnor Myrie, and Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, will join with Common Cause/NY Executive Director Susan Lerner, and voting rights activists to promote the first year of early voting in New York.
The new law gives voters 9 days before Election Day to vote beginning October 26 and ending on November 3rd. Voters can still cast their ballots on Election Day on November 5.
The 2019 New York State budget also included $14.7 million for electronic poll-books and $10 million for counties to implement early voting; almost exactly the combined $25 million the Let NY Vote coalition had asked for. New York is now the 38th state in the nation to pass and fund early voting, and the 35th state with electronic poll-books.
To find more information on where and when to vote check out: www.voteearlyny.org
Background:
Early Voting is just one of the many victories the Let NY Vote coalition had this legislative session consolidation of primaries as well as pre-registration of 16 and 17 year olds.
Let NY Vote's list of wins in the 2019 legislative session:
WHO: | Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause/NY State Senator Zellnor Myrie Assemblywoman Latrice Walker Jarret Berg, Executive Director of Vote Early NY Advocates |
WHAT: | Rally with Senator Myrie, Assemblywoman Walker, and advocates to alert New Yorkers about their first-ever chance to vote early in NY. |
WHEN: | Friday October 04, 2019 at 10:30AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) |
WHERE: | Outside an early voting polling site, 283 Adams Street Brooklyn, New York |
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