The LetNYVote coalition is urging Governor Cuomo to commit to including at least $ 6.4 million in
funding for early voting in the 30 - day amendments due on February 15th.
Common Cause joins with over 30 organizations from across the state in urging the legislature to include
funding for early voting in the final budget and bring New York's antiquated system of elections into the 21st century,» said Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY.
Beyond the payroll tax and charitable donation programs, Cuomo offered up ideas to reduce traffic congestion in New York City, expand availability of flu vaccines for children, impose restrictions on sex offenders, provide
funding for an early voting program, ban synthetic marijuana sales and target physicians who engage in medical misconduct.
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.
Assemblymember Robert Carroll (D - Park Slope - Kensington) said he is pleased with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announced
funding for early voting.
We urge Governor Cuomo to put
funding for early voting in his budget.
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.»
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.
Not exact matches
Einhorn,
fund manager
for Greenlight Capital, accused Apple of cash hoarding
earlier last week and is encouraging shareholders to
vote against Apple's proxy because he thinks proposition two will kill the option of Apple issuing preferred stock.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
The governor has proposed
early voting in the past, but never called
for state
funding to be used to support its implementation.
«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.
«I applaud the governor
for his intention to
fund early voting in the FY 2019 executive budget,» Carroll said.
«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.
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.
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.
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.
The legislature still needs to
vote on additional
funding for improvements, which wouldn't happen until June at the
earliest.
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fund to avoid another scandal MORE to resign.
New Yorkers love
early voting and applaud Governor Cuomo
for adding
funding for it to his proposed budget.
announced plans
for a
vote early Monday morning on a bill to
fund the government through Feb. 8.
The amendments related to Planned Parenthood
funding, limits on outside income
for lawmakers, LLC loophole closure, and no - fault absentee ballots
for early voting.
The $ 12.7 billion bond bill approved
earlier this month in a unanimous
vote in the Massachusetts House includes
funding for some long - sought projects in western Massachusetts.
The measure, which was scheduled to be brought to the Senate floor
for a
vote early this week, would
fund education programs during the 1982 - 83 school year at approximately $ 13 billion.
Today the charter school movement achieved an important win: the State Board of Education
voted to give qualifying charter schools
earlier access to the recent increase
for Permanent School
Fund bond guarantee program.
Republican lawmakers writing the next state budget
voted Monday to include a $ 639 million
funding increase
for Wisconsin schools — about $ 10 million less than the record amount Gov. Scott Walker proposed
earlier this year.