Strong Democracy
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.

In the News
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December 20, 2024 Mayor Adams Vowed To ‘Get Stuff Done.’ Prosecutors Say His Team Did Just That – for a Fee. Gothamist December 20, 2024 Albany County Legislature Seeks To Improve Interaction With Public Through Tech WAMC December 19, 2024 Civic Groups Want Permanent Video Conferencing Law for New York Lawmakers Spectrum News December 17, 2024 Departing OTB Chief Splurged On Travel Investigative Post
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From the Blog
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December 16, 2024 Watchdog Strongly Supports Campaign Finance Board Denying Public Funds to Eric Adams Campaign Read more December 11, 2024 Reinvent Albany Joins Groups’ Call for City Council to Reconsider Seddio BOE Nomination Read more December 4, 2024 Advocate Asks City Council to Support NYC Even-Year Elections Constitutional Amendment Read more December 2, 2024 Watchdog Urges NYS to Preserve Integrity of Public Campaign Finance Read more
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Reports and Policy Briefs
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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 July 2019 Less Than 1 in 4 Campaign Donations to 19 NYS Senate Democratic Leaders Are From People in Their Districts Read more May 2019 Only 16% of Campaign Donations to Assembly Leadership Are From People in Their Districts Read more
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