Advocates for election reform say voter turnout across the New York could be greatly increased by allowing citizens to cast their ballots early and adopting automatic voter registration, as other states have. Without such measures, said Jennifer Wilson, program and policy director for the League of Women Voters of New York State, this state will continue to have one of the lowest voter-participation levels in the nation. “We think early voting would have an immediate impact,” Wilson said Wednesday after the Assembly Election Law Committee advanced legislation that would allow voting in New York up to seven days before an election.
The league has stepped up its lobbying effort on behalf of the measure this spring and anticipates that the Assembly will embrace it in time to ramp up pressure on Senate Republicans, who have been chilly to the proposal.
The league maintains that without early voting, long lines at polling places will continue to discourage participation.
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