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N.Y. state enacts long-stalled automatic voter registration through government agencies Denis Slattery ALBANY — New York is streamlining voter registration by enacting an automatic process that will add eligible residents to the rolls when they interact with state or local government agencies. The law, signed Tuesday by Gov. Cuomo, makes it so New Yorkers will automatically be registered or have their voter information updated when they have contact with the government, such a...

NYs Automatic Voter Registration Law Hailed As "Profound Reform" To Elections arrow At P.S. 93 in Brooklyn on November 3, 2020 Scott Lynch / Gothamist Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a holiday present to voting rights advocates on Tuesday signing the state’s first automatic voter registration (AVR) bill into law. Now eligible voters will automatically be registered when they interact with multiple state and city agencies that already collect the information required by the ...

President Donald Trump’s continued false insistence that he is the rightful winner of the 2020 election is culminating six weeks after Election Day with a widespread Republican embrace of an audacious legal effort to invalidate the votes of entire states – an attempt which, if successful, would inflict grievous damage on American democracy itself. The mere fact that the attorneys general of Texas and 17 other GOP-led states, almost two-thirds of House Republicans, and the president ha...

A forklift operator loads absentee ballots for mailing in Raleigh, N.C., on Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — The Fourth Circuit seemed unlikely Thursday to side with a conservative legal group in its effort to get sensitive voting records from North Carolina, based on claims that the state has not properly maintained its rolls. Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based nonprofit whose president was a member of President Donald Trump’s failed voter f...