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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.

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.

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From the Blog

August 4, 2025 Statement on Proposed Amendment to Allow Mid-Cycle Redistricting Read more July 16, 2025 Groups Ask Governor to Clarify Changes to Public Match Read more July 7, 2025 Charter Testimony: Ranked Choice Voting Works, Let’s Use It Fully Read more June 23, 2025 Testimony to Mayoral Charter Commission: Logic of Ranked Choice Voting Is Top 4 General Election and Open Primary Read more

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In the News

August 6, 2025 NYS Considers Amending Constitution To Control Redistricting Finger Lakes August 6, 2025 Politics: 2025Talks – August 6, 2025 Kiowa County Press August 5, 2025 NY Republicans Rip Hochul Over ‘Gerrymandering’ Threats The Black Chronicle August 5, 2025 Good Government Groups Fire Back at Hochul Over Redistricting After She Tells Them ‘Politics Is a Political Process’ Spectrum News

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Reports and Policy Briefs

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 July 2019 Less Than 1 in 4 Campaign Donations to 19 NYS Senate Democratic Leaders Are From People in Their Districts 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, in Assembly Committee	Authorizes NY to share voter roll data with other states
A1228 (Seawright)	S1035 (Myrie)	Support	Passed Senate, in Assembly Committee	Mandates training for NY local elections commissioners and key staff
	S843 (May)	Support	Passed Senate, in Assembly Committee	Establishes minimum staffing levels for local boards of elections
A5056 (Jacobson)	S1087 (Mayer)	Support	Passed Senate, in Assembly Committee	Makes local elections commissioners full-time employees of their boards
A4881 (Heastie)	S4588 (Stewart-Cousins)	Oppose		Undermines New Yorkers’ right to representation by consolidating special and general elections
A6233 (Carroll R)		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	In Committee	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	On Senate Floor, Introduced in Assembly	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)		Support	In committee	Amends NYS Constitution to allow same-day voter registration