The New York State Legislature had the chance in May to ensure safe and fair elections, but chose not to — and now tens of thousands of votes are being thrown out; disproportionately from Black and Brown communities hit hardest by the pandemic.
The Legislature is meeting this coming Monday, July 20 — call now and tell them to act swiftly and pass the entire #LetNYVoteSafely slate of laws to ensure that all votes will be counted in the November election.
5 actions
- Call/Email Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousin. (518) 455-2585 / scousins@nysenate.gov
- Call/Email Speaker of the Assembly Carl Heastie — 518-455-3791 / Speaker@nyassembly.gov
- Call your own State Senator — find them at bit.ly/2019NYreps (EZ: click on the bill link to show your support online)
- Call your own Assembly Member — find them at bit.ly/2019NYreps (EZ: the above Senate bill shows the Assembly version)
- Get 3 friends to take action!
Script
An alarming number of absentee ballots are not being counted for reasons that bills before you would fix. I do not want New York to rival states like Georgia and Florida when it comes to suppressing the vote. I am calling to strongly urge you to ensure all votes are counted — no matter which method they are cast — by passing the entire #LetNYvoteSafely slate of laws including:
- codifying the expansion of expanded absentee voting for the duration of the pandemic – S8015A[passed]/A102a7A{passed}; [this has passed both chambers and now awaitng the Gov.’s signature]
- ensuring every properly cast absentee ballot is counted – S8367/noA, S8368/A10744, S8369/A10746, S8370[passed]/A10830)[passed];
- providing a return postage guaranteed envelope with absentee ballots – S8004/A2327;
- temporarily enabling the use of an online voter registration portal in New York City –S6463[passed]/A8473;
- providing students with voter information and a voter registration application; S7194 [passed] /A8998
- and increasing the minimum number of early voting sites S6922 [passed]/A9791
#LetNYvoteSafely slate of laws
Read more details and find the specific bills here: https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/045/304/original/Let_NY_Vote_July_Legislative_Priorities.pdf
Then please report back here and tell us how it went!
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