The NYDLC Steering Committee With Former DNC Chair Governor Howard Dean, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Westchester County Democratic Chair Reginald LaFayette, and City Council Member Dan Garodnick
Leading Advocates Form Coalition, Write to NY State Senate Calling for Bipartisan Agreement to End StalemateALBANY, NY – Advocates representing millions of New Yorkers are calling on the State Senate to accept a bipartisan operating agreement to end the gridlock and get to work on critical legislation.
As its first public act, the BOA Coalition has written to all 62 members of the State Senate calling upon them to sign on to a bipartisan operating agreement and get legislative work done immediately. ... Full Story
Turning Election Monitoring into Community ActivismIn November, NYDLC Steering Committee Member Mark Favors protected the vote in Canton, Ohio. This May, Mark reached out to engage a group of Canton students, introducing them to the idea of serving their communities.
From May 11th-13th, 2009, students from Hartford Middle School in Canton, Ohio visited New York City and Albany participating the We Are Change! Youth Civic Leadership Academy.... Full Story
Update on NY20: Victory in the Hudson Valley!On Friday, April 24, Democratic candidate Scott Murphy at last came out the winner of the March 31 special election to fill the vacant Congressional seat of now US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.... Full Story
More Work Needs To Be Done To Protect Voting RightsAlthough we celebrate the tremendous enthusiasm and participation of voters in last year’s election, millions of others were disenfranchised due to legal and administrative barriers. The New York Times pointedly outlined these issues in this recent March 18 editorial.... Full Story
US Supreme Court decides Voting Rights Act caseThe United States Supreme Court last week decided a case under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The opinion affects minority voting rights in its interpretation of the percentage of minority voters necessary for the drawing of certain voting districts.... Full Story
Senator Schumer and Rules Committee Report 4 To 6 Million People Prevented From Voting in November Due To Election Administration ProblemsThe United States Senate is undertaking a serious examination of the process of voter registration and election administration. The Senate Rules Committee, chaired by New York Senator Charles Schumer, commissioned a study by the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project to analyze election problems in the November 2008 election across the country. Its Report, released on March 11, 2009, concluded that 4 to 6 million voters were denied the right to vote due to administrative problems.... Full Story
NYDLC Reports Results Of Extensive November 2008 Election Monitoring EffortOver the past election year, the New York Democratic Lawyers Council recruited and trained more than 1,000 volunteers to serve as “poll watchers” to observe the polls on Election Day across New York State and resolve problems as they arose. These poll watchers phoned in any and all incidents of which they became aware out in the field, and these incidents were then logged into the NYDLC's computer system by other NYDLC members so that possible trends could be spotted.... Full Story
Reflections On The Obama InaugurationThe historic January 20th Inauguration of Barack Obama as President and Joseph Biden, Jr. as Vice President was observed by millions of people around the globe. Needless to say, the NYDLC maintained an active presence in Washington, DC throughout the Inaugural period.... Full Story
Appeals Court Affirms Right To Choose Second Home As Voting AddressA New York appeals court has held that New Yorkers who have more than one home have the right to make their country home their voting address, even if it's not their primary residence. At issue were the voting rights of eight politically-active long-time residents of the small upstate town of Bovina, all of whom currently or formerly also lived and worked in New York City. A local political opponent had challenged their Bovina voter registrations based on nothing more than the admitted fact that they were not full-time Bovina residents.... Full Story
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