Sentences with phrase «funding for the early voting»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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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.