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More people voting, robust funding for election administration, robust public campaign finance, lower contribution limits, vote by mail, early voting, ranked choice voting.

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More people voting, publicly financed elections, vote by mail, ranked choice voting, restrictions on dark money.

To see our positions on bills that fall under this issue area, please see our chart of Reinvent Albany State Bill Memos.

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From the Blog

November 3, 2025 Reinvent Albany Comments on Regulations for Legislature’s Self-Serving Changes to Public Campaign Finance Read more October 23, 2025 Reinvent Albany Supports NYC Ballot Proposal 6 on Even-Year Elections Read more October 16, 2025 New Report: NY’s Constitutional Cap on Supreme Court Spawns Dysfunction Read more September 25, 2025 Testimony: Stronger Ethics Commission and Laws, Stronger Public Trust Read more

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In the News

November 16, 2025 Editorial: Add Transparency, Efficiency to Gov’t Purchase Process The Daily Gazette November 14, 2025 Residents Call for Action on Hidden Impacts of Crypto Mining: ‘Coming at the Expense’ Yahoo News November 9, 2025 Residents Call for Action on Hidden Impacts of Crypto Mining: ‘Coming at the Expense’ MSN November 9, 2025 Residents Call for Action on Hidden Impacts of Crypto Mining: ‘Coming at the Expense’ The Cool Down

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Reports and Policy Briefs

October 2025 Backdoor to the Bench: NY’s Constitutional Cap on Supreme Court Spawns Dysfunction Read more February 2025 Mayoral Succession and Potential Special Election Read more April 2023 New Report Shows Buying Influence Works Read more October 2022 Empire State of Emergency: Overuse of Governor’s Emergency Powers Invites Abuse of Power and Corruption Read more

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Memo Tracker

Assembly Bill	Senate Bill	RA Position	Status	Description (Links to Memo)
A3649-B (Taylor)	S1356-A (Skoufis)	Support	Passed Senate and Assembly	Authorizes NY to share voter roll data with other states
A1228 (Seawright)	S1035 (Myrie)	Support	In Committee	Mandates training for NY local elections commissioners and key staff
A6069 (Hunter)	S843 (May)	Support	In Committee	Establishes minimum staffing levels for local boards of elections
A5056 (Jacobson)	S1087 (Mayer)	Support	In Committee	Makes local elections commissioners full-time employees of their boards
A4881 (Heastie)	S4588 (Stewart-Cousins)	Oppose	In Committee	Undermines New Yorkers’ right to representation by consolidating special and general elections
A6233 (Carroll R)	S7883 (Salazar)	Support	In Committee	Closes loophole allowing LLCs and corporate entities to be used to exceed state limits on campaign contributions
A3665 (Simone)	S590 (Krueger)	Support	Passed Senate and Assembly	Ends dominance of mayoral charter commissions
A2653 (Shrestha)	S7858 (Salazar)	Support	In Committee	Ends automatic approval of some gubernatorial appointees
A3929-B (Dinowitz)	S2437-A (Krueger)	Support	In Committee	Requires “paid for by” disclosures by influencers supporting campaigns
A7450 (Levenberg)	S2541 (Myrie)	Support	In Committee	Requires images of cast vote records be made publicly available
A2635 (Cunningham)	S4364 (Comrie)	Support	In Committee	Requires better notice to voters who are purged or put on inactive status
A2162 (Carroll)	S5751 (Gianaris)	Support	In Committee	Amends NYS Constitution to allow same-day voter registration
A2635 (Cunningham)	S4364 (Comrie)	Support	In Committee	Requires better notice to voters who are purged or put on inactive status