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Fighting for the Youth Vote in the Hudson Valley

Election Day is on November 7. If not for the determined efforts of a group of students and professors at Vassar College in 2022, there would not be on campus-voting this year.

Vassar students: BOE in violation by not designating polling site on campus

Vassar seeks voting site as Dutchess Board of Elections argues

New York law allows colleges to have an on-campus polling site if desired, though the Board of Elections must agree to the college's plan.

Bard files Board of Elections complaint over Red Hook site

The college and the Republican Board of Elections commissioner are clashing over treatment of Red Hook's District 5 sites.

Even Blue States Suppress Student Voters

Dutchess DA finds no evidence of perjury in Haight investigation

By Mid Hudson News -www.midhudsonnews.com Feb 12, 2021 Close-Up Of Justice Lady Against Black Background POUGHKEEPSIE – Dutchess County District Attorney William Grady, a Republican, has complied with a request from county Democrats to investigate the Republican Elections Commissioner for perjury. Grady has completed his investigation of Erik Haight and found that no evidence of perjury exists. County Democratic Chairwoman Elisa Sumner asked for the investigation last month, asserting that Haight’s October testimony in a case involving polling locations in which he said that changing polling places so close to the general election would lead to voter confusion, was perjury.

Dutchess Dems want DA to investigate GOP elections commissioner

By Mid Hudson News -www.midhudsonnews.com Jan 28, 2021 Close-Up Of Hand Holding Magnifying Glass Against White Background POUGHKEEPSIE – Dutchess County Democratic Committee Chairperson Elisa Sumner has requested that the District Attorney investigate Republican Election Commissioner Erik Haight for what Sumner considers perjury. A letter from Sumner to Dutchess County District Attorney Bill Grady on Monday, January 25, requests that the prosecutor investigate Haight for allegedly intentionally misleading a judge in an October proceeding in which Bard College and others were seeking to have a polling place moved to the Red Hook college campus. During the proceeding, Haight argued before Dutchess County Supreme Court Justice Maria Rosa saying that the move at such a late date would cause voter confusion just days before the November election. Justice Rosa agreed with Haight on October 13 and declined to move the polling place.