Sentences with phrase «funding early voting»

Governor Andrew Cuomo expressed his commitment to funding early voting across New York by including it in his 30 - day budget amendments.

The Let NY Vote Coalition, which has advocated for early voting and other voter reforms, praised the governor for funding early voting in his spending plan.

The governor can demonstrate his commitment to reinvigorating democracy in New York by funding early voting in his executive budget.»

At noon, state Sen. Brian Kavanagh will join with good government groups and legislators to call on Cuomo to fund early voting in this year's executive budget proposal, outside th4e Senate chambers, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced a 30 - day budget amendment to fund early voting across the state.

«I applaud the governor for his intention to fund early voting in the FY 2019 executive budget,» Carroll said.

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As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

Because everyone knows that, rationally, Congress will vote to increase the debt ceiling in the last stage of the game, that affects how the earlier stages of the game are played: Congress votes for new programs, anticipating that funds for the new programs will be paid for by borrowing.

In early June, the board voted 4 - 1 to hold a referendum on a proposal to restructure the district's corporate fund to spend $ 11 million on the construction of a new recreation center, a senior center, an aquatic center and ongoing park development.

The Assembly and Senate both voted into the early hours of the morning, passing several noncontroversial budget bills — for example, a transportation funding measure that did not include anything for the MTA, which is an area that has caused considerable consternation this session.

Implementation of early voting needs to be adequately funded to be viable and must be included in the Executive budget,» said The Reverend Peter Cook, Executive Director of the New York State Council of Churches.

Allow early voting up to 12 days before an election, permit same - day voter registration and require online political ads to disclose funding sources.

We applaud Senator Kavanagh for making early voting a priority issue and for urging the Governor to fund this reform in the state budget,» said Jennifer Wilson, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of NYS.

New York should catch up by enacting early voting so voters can vote on days other than Election Day, and put the funding in the budget to ensure it is effectively implemented,» said Alex Camarda, Senior Policy Advisor of Reinvent Albany.

Providing funding in the Executive Budget would prove to New Yorkers, who have waited long enough for simple voting reforms, the Governor is serious about implementing early voting in New York State,» said Ethan Geringer - Sameth, Public Policy and Program Manager for Citizens Union.

The Brennan Center urges Governor Cuomo to provide funding for early voting in this year's budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

Early voting is a commonsense reform whose time has come, and funding this reform in the budget isn't just the right thing to do — it's the smart thing to do.»

In coalition with Let NY Vote, we ask Governor Cuomo to commit to helping ensure constitutional rights across all of our communities by including funding for early voting in the Executive Budget.»

We urge Governor Cuomo to put funding for early voting in his budget.

Early voting can not be implemented without funding from the state.

What Cuomo's executive budget lacks is funding for the adoption of early voting.

Governor Cuomo is putting $ 7 million into his 30 - day budget amendments to fund poll sites for early voting in New York by the 2020 presidential race.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is putting his money where his mouth is by adding funding in his 2018 - 19 state budget proposal for the implementation of early voting in New York.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

The governor has proposed early voting in the past, but never called for state funding to be used to support its implementation.

The funding could help counties that have been wary about early voting because of the additional costs involved.

In a year when the Governor, the Assembly, Senate Democrats and the IDC all agree publicly that we need to fund Early Voting and voting reform, we shouldn't be struggling to include it in the final budget.

«I'd like to thank Governor Cuomo for adding this funding to his budget proposal and recognize all of my colleagues in the legislature and the advocates, especially the Let New York Vote Coalition, who have worked tirelessly to make early voting a reality in New York.

«We are looking forward to negotiating with the state Legislature to ensure early voting receives adequate funding.»

Dustin Czarny, an election commissioner from Onondaga County and chair of the state Election Commissioners» Democratic conference, lauded Cuomo's early voting proposal and the funding that was added to the executive budget.

The Republican - led Senate may be on board now that Cuomo proposed funding the implementation of early voting.

Assemblymember Robert Carroll (D - Park Slope - Kensington) said he is pleased with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announced funding for early voting.

«This piece of funding is needed to make early voting a reality in our state.

With early voting starting or about to start in many states, the fund is now stepping up its advertising.

«The League has supported early voting for several years and we are thrilled to see that the governor recognizes the importance of this program by providing seed funding and thereby avoiding passage of an unfunded mandate,» the league said in a statement.

(Ed Day responds to Legislature Committee's unwillingness to request change in funding of early voting law.

Both were withheld from the budget despite the fact that Cuomo had for the first time included funding for early voting in his budget plan.

House Speaker John Boehner is expected to move soon — as early as tomorrow — to bring up the clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for a vote on the House floor.

The sore loser — who finished a distant fourth in the September Democratic mayoral primary after eeking out a mere 7 percent of the vote — and his campaign committee filed the Manhattan federal court suit claiming his civil rights were violated a month earlier when the Board withheld the funds.

In early February, at about the same time the Council was voting through raises for all city elected officials, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito provided Council members with about $ 29,500 each in additional funding for their offices.

Members deliberated and passed a series of resolutions regarding the NY SAFE Act, funding for county 9 -1-1 communications, public health article 6 reforms, early voting, IDA reforms, Medicaid costs, and home rule authority.

Earlier this year, Rodriguez took part in the participatory budget process, in which community members can vote on how $ 1 million in capital funding is spent in the district.

The Common Council earlier this year voted to cut $ 1.5 million from the Land Bank and use the money to fund positions for 15 new officers.

Even before the EU vote, which caused the Dow Jones to drop by more than 600 points Friday, DiNapoli's office earlier this month reported that the fiscal year that ended on March 31 was the worst since 2009 for the $ 178 million state pension fund, which had a paltry 0.19 % rate of return on investments.

She gave an early indication of how she may have voted early Friday, announcing a deal she helped broker to secure $ 15 billion in funding to states for those services — including care for new mothers — during the transition process away from the ACA.

, announced in January, would provide state funds for counties to establish a 12 - day period of early voting before Election Day.

Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.

Downing Street is desperate to avoid a vote on the IMF subscription, citing the previous Commons debate on the subject earlier this year which authorised any further increase in IMF funding up to # 39 billion.