Tonight the Let NY Vote coalition chose a powerful voting rights platform that includes: equity, accessibility, better administration of elections, security, accuracy of the vote count and youth voting! It's really exciting! Full Let NY Vote 2022 priorities are listed below.
The hybrid-ban bill (A1115A / S309A) will be one of the Let NY Vote coalition's priorities. It was chosen along with 2 other new bills. Congratulations and sincere thanks to everyone who helped!!! We tied for 1st place in the voting for new priorities.
This was a tremendous effort that took months of planning. Thank you to each and everyone of you who worked with your organizations to join the Let NY Vote coalition; who got advance approval from your group to vote for Election Security; who took the time to join the Let NY Vote meetings; who spoke up at the meeting and put comments in the chat; and who navigated a tricky evening of voting with a few twists and turns. It was a stand-out job of teamwork and collaboration!!
Congrats also that
The bill to allow public access to digital ballot images A6589A / S286A came in as a 2nd place runner up! The bill to change the process for voting machine approval A4926 / S331 came in 3rd runner up!(These 2 bills will not be part of the Let NY Vote priorities - but they remain in the SMART Legislation platform. The strong showing in the voting demonstrates that our coalition executed our plan well. GREAT JOB!!)
Special thanks to our friends and allies in the disability rights community who voted for the hybrid-ban bill! We must make sure that voters with disabilities have secure, accessible options to vote privately and independently. We'll be following the certification process of non-tabulating ballot marking devices closely and doing everything we can to move it forward rapidly. We also want to keep thinking about how to achieve other improvements for voters with disabilities, including how to eliminate the full face ballot requirement and mandating better poll worker training on ballot-marking devices.
Having the hybrid-ban bill chosen as a Let NY Vote priority has the potential to be very impactful. This statewide, well-resourced and influential voting rights coalition will now be fighting to protect voters from voting machines that security experts say pose "extraordinary risks for the voters of New York." Here is a list of some of the members of the Let NY Vote coalition. Let's make sure to reach out to them and include them in our process.
Here is the full list of priorities for the Let NY Vote 2022 Legislative Session:
(From Jan Combopiano's email)
Restart the constitutional amendment process for no-excuse absentee and same-day registration and advocate for legislative fixes, including
Extend the pandemic expansion of sickness excuse through February 3, 2024 (A8432, Dinowitz)
Eliminate the 25-day voter registration and align it to the constitutional 10-day deadline (S2951, Kavanaugh/A1458, Carroll)
John R Lewis New York State Voting Rights Act (S1046A, Myrie /A6678A, Walker)
End Felony Disenfranchisement/ Full Restoration of Voting Rights (S3073, Salazar/A6646, Epstein)
Board of Elections reform
2022 Priorities, additional that were voted on tonight: (based on preliminary results)
Hybrid-ban bill (S309A, Myrie/A1115A Paulin)
On-campus poll sites (S4658, Parker/A454, Rozic)
Wrong Church/saving votes of those in the wrong poll site (S284A, Myrie/A642A, Carroll)
I've attached a screenshot of the preliminary results of the voting for the new priorities of the Let NY Vote coalition.
Thank you again for all the effort that went into this process, and congratulations to all of us on this important step.
Now - let's get the hybrid-ban bill passed!
Please attend the Friday 12pm SMART Legislation Working Group mtg.
Register to attend.
The zoom link is the same if you are registered.
updates on the hybrid ban bill amendments outreach to Let NY Vote coalition members
better name for the hybrid-ban bill?
meeting with Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Spokes
Thank you for protecting your vote.
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Kind Regards,Lulu
@LuluFriesdat
Founder, SMART Legislation
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