Sentences with phrase «given military voters»

Cuomo also notes a protracted fight could create chaos in a year in which a federal judge could move New York's primaries from September to as early as June to give military voters more time to submit absentee ballots.

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The new measure will more than double that timeframe to between 70 and 80 days and give county boards of elections adequate time prior to special elections for absentee ballots for military voters to be mailed and counted in compliance with federal law.

Republican State Sen. Tom O'Mara, who sponsored the bill, said the later date will also give New York more time to comply with the MOVE Act, a federal law that requires states to send absentee ballots to military voters overseas no less than 45 days before an election.

But he says his track record of leadership in the military and in business gives voters a clear choice between «two people who love public service but who come to it through two very different backgrounds.»