New York Times: Early Voting and Other Changes to Election Laws Are Coming to New York

Lawmakers also plan to pass bills to allow vote-by-mail and same-day voter registration, though those proposals will also require voter referendums — and passage by the next Legislature, scheduled to be seated in 2021 — as they change the State Constitution.

“This is just the beginning,” said Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens, the deputy Democratic leader in the Senate. “There’s a long list of issues that have been kept on the shelf by Republicans all these years.

“And the issues we’re handling in the first week are incredibly important, and there will be incredibly important issues in the second week and the third week and the fourth week.”

The changes to the state’s voting laws are long overdue, according to good government groups that have watched as New York has fallen to the bottom of lists tracking voter participation, despite being one of the nation’s bluest states.

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