2022
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- The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Actof New York (June 2022)
- Registration Deadline Reduced from 25 Days to 10 Days Prior to Election Day (Dec 2022)
- “Wrong Church Bill” prevents disqualifying a registered voter’s entire ballot solely because it was inadvertently cast at a poll site other than the voter’s assigned polling place (Dec 2022)
- Expanded on-campus ballot access for student voters and mail-in ballot envelopes sent to voters to have pre-paid postage (Apr 2022)
- “Make Voting Easy Act” requires local boards of elections to designate at least one early voting poll site for every 30,000 registered voters in a county (2022)
- Keeps confidential the voter registration records of victims of sexual violence in certain cases (2022)
- Public financing of campaigns (Nov 2022)
- Blind and disabled voters to fill out a remote, accessible vote-by-mail ballot online, print it out, and mail or return it to their county board of elections (2022)
2021
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- Protects rights of absentee voter where their intention is unambiguous (2021)
- Restoration of voting rights for persons convicted of felonies following release from incarceration (2021)
- Creation of a statewide electronic absentee ballot application transmittal system to allow voters to request an absentee ballot via such system (2021)
2019—2020
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- Provides voters an opportunity to cure deficiencies regarding absentee ballots (2020)
- Pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds to become registered to vote on their 18th birthday (2019)
- Early voting (2019)
- Combining the federal non-presidential primary and state primary (2019
- Automatic transfer of a voter’s registration when they move within New York State