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Listen to the story from Capital Correspondent Karen Dewitt. The 29 electors and a few key staff met in the Capitol’s Assembly Chamber, the largest gathering space in the building, with a capacity to hold over 1,000 people. Plexiglas barriers separated Governor Andrew Cuomo, who led the proceedings, from other electors including  the Clintons,  Attorney General Tish James and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. The legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Co...

1:06 The Electoral College meets in all 50 states on Monday. In New York and Connecticut, officials have decided, reluctantly, to hold the event in person, despite the rising rate of the coronavirus. Connecticut’s presidential electors convened in the Senate Chamber of the state Capitol in Hartford to cast official ballots for president and vice president. Secretary of the State Denise Merrill oversaw the proceedings. There are seven all-Democratic electors from Connecticut: Susan Barrett, Jo...

ALBANY — New York’s 29 electors gathered as the state’s 59th Electoral College in the Assembly chamber of the state Capitol on Monday afternoon to cast votes to solidify Democrat Joe Biden’s election as 46th president of the United States. At noon Monday, 538 Americans convened in state capitols across the country and cast the most consequential votes of the 2020 election. The electors, or members of the Electoral College, took one of the final, formal steps in making Biden,...

CANTON — Former New York State Democratic Party Chair June F. O’Neill, Canton, will join 28 other Democrats in Albany on Monday to formally cast votes for President-elect Joseph R. Biden as members of the Electoral College. While the event is usually filled with some fanfare, this year’s gathering of New York’s Electoral College delegation will likely be quick and rather unceremonious in order to limit risks posed by COVID-19, while also meeting constitutional requirements t...