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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn The organizing initiative focuses on early outreach to minority voters. • 5 min read Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.J. Pat Carter/AP, FILE As Republicans lead efforts to restrict voting rights across the country, in what they describe as efforts to keep elections secure, Democrats have been trying to figure out how to effectively galvanize minority voting blocs ahead of the 2022 midterms, key bases needed for the party to maintain the majority of the House of Representatives. The Democra...

Taylor Romine and Chandelis Duster, CNN, May 6, 2021 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill expanding felon voting rights on Tuesday, according to the state legislature, allowing for people on parole in the state to be eligible to vote as soon as they leave prison. The law codifies a 2018 executive order that allowed for Cuomo to individually pardon parolees. According to the bill text, Department of Corrections officials are required to provide a voter registration form as the felon is leaving the facility. Previously, parolees would have to wait a period of four to six weeks to receive a ...

X90033 A New York State Secure Ballot Dropbox sits outside the James A. Farley U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Post Office as New York State and New York City legislators held a rally for their new legislation that would to allow local Boards of Elections to establish absentee ballot drop box locations across the state, in New York City, New York, U.S., August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar - RC25PI9SZS43 The Texas House passed its version of the omnibus elections bill on a party-line vote in a marathon session that wrapped up just after 3 a.m. on Friday. The bill is part of a nationwide trend of n...

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs bill restoring voter rights to felons "We are one step closer to dismantling the vestiges of segregation-era felony disenfranchisement in NY," says New York Assembly Member Daniel O'Donnell New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill that grants those released from prison the right to vote immediately upon discharge, resulting in the restoration of voter rights for an estimated 35,000 people, according to “Over the past several years, New York has been a national leader in election and criminal justice reforms, and felony disenfranchisement is a vestige of J...

New York Gov. Cuomo signs bill that automatically restores felons’ right to vote after release New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill expanding felon voting rights on Tuesday, according to the state legislature, allowing for people on parole in the state to be eligible to vote as soon as they leave prison. The law codifies a 2018 executive order that allowed for Cuomo to individually pardon parolees. According to the bill text, Department of Corrections officials are required to provide a voter registration form as the felon is leaving the facility. Previously, parolees would have to wait...