While Manhattan's congressional and local
state senate seats will almost certainly stay blue,
about half a
dozen Democratic
state house seats are
currently up for grabs, according to the latest Cook Political Report.
Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two
dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the
state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information
about who paid for them, as is
currently required of traditional media platforms.