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Rising crime in New York has gripped the mayoral race. Eric Adams says he alone can fix it.
Updated 9:14 AM ET, Sat May 29, 2021
Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and a Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks after receiving the endorsement from the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) in the Bronx on May 7, 2021 in New York City. (CNN)For the first few months of New York City s Democratic mayoral primary, the campaign seemed to be trundling along in search of a defining issue.
Covid-19 numbers were dropping, Democrats in Washington delivered financial aid to head off a potential budget crisis and, with the outlook generally bright, the candidates plans many of them crafted in painstaking detail blurred together as the contest, which often played out in a long series of interminable Zoom forums, took a backseat to other provincial political dramas.
For almost three years now, we have been attempting to expose the lack of equity and accessibility to early voting sites for residents living in the City of Troy. The cry for media coverage related to, what many refer to as blatant voter suppression in Rensselaer County, has largely been ignored.
Last year, we joined with Senator Neil Breslin and Assemblyman John McDonald to pass legislation that would strengthen laws related to early voting. Our efforts were rewarded when the Stateâs Early Voting Law was amended, requiring Boards of Elections to locate early voting sites where a majority of the population lives making voting for citizens easier and more accessible. Rensselaer County did not comply.
TROY, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the Rensselaer County Board of Elections (BOE) and its commissioners, Jason Schofield and Edward McDonough, for
BOE’s Repeated Failure to Select Early Voting Site for Troy Voters a Violation of State Law AG James Seeks Court Order for Accessible Site for June 2021 Primary NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a lawsuit against the Rensselaer County Board of Elections (BOE) and its commissioners, Jason Schofield and Edward McDonough, for failing to provide voters in Rensselaer County with adequate and equitable access to early voting poll sites, as required by the New York’s Early Voting law . The lawsuit filed in the Rensselaer County Supreme Court alleges that when BOE and its commissioners selected early voting sites, they ignored criteria that was required by law to take into account when determining poll sites. Despite the availability of potential early voting sites in Troy the most densely populated area of the county BOE and its commissioners repeatedly refused to select an early voting site that was easily accessible to Tr