Petition Numbers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

( Albany, NY) The Senate Majority will advance election system reforms to protect New Yorkers’ health and our state’s democratic process ahead of the 2021 elections despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The bills that will be passed by the Senate build on the major legislation passed earlier this month, and the historic reforms enacted during the 2019 and 2020 Legislative Session. The legislative package that will be advanced by the Senate Majority includes expanded access to absentee ballots, lower petition requirements for the 2021 elections, remote participation for political party...

Hopeful, but not confident you would be able to reach the petition numbers needed or the signatures needed for the petition because it's hard to gauge people. the passions were very high. people were protesting in the cold and the rain, but there was concern you wouldn't reach it. what do you believe was the driving factor here that people turned it beyond anger at the dinner tape to reaction of signing the petitions? >> i think a few things. they continue to just lie to the people. they continue to say they want to raise taxes and then raise taxes on the poorest individuals in our state, the ...