Voters fill of their ballots at a polling place in New York Metropolis on Tuesday.
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Voters fill of their ballots at a polling place in New York Metropolis on Tuesday.
Seth Wenig/AP
New York voters soundly rejected constitutional amendments that may have allowed for same-day voter registration and common absentee voting in future elections.
The Related Press known as the poll measure contests on Wednesday night.
If accepted, the proposals would have eliminated language within the state structure that at the moment prevents no-excuse absentee voting and same-day registration, permitting lawmakers to then develop poll entry.
Twenty states and Washington, D.C., provide same-day, or Election Day, registration. Dozens of states, together with many which might be extra conservative than Democratic-leaning New York, provide no-excuse absentee voting.
The poll ends in New York come amid strong performances by Republicans in Tuesday’s elections.
New York’s Proposal 1, which might have enacted a laundry record of adjustments to the state redistricting course of, was additionally rejected by voters.
Within the weeks main as much as the election, the New York Republican Occasion mounted an aggressive statewide campaign geared toward convincing voters to opposed the voting and redistricting proposals. Regardless of launching simply two weeks earlier than the election, that effort seems to have been vastly profitable in an off-year election with low turnout.
Susan Lerner of Widespread Trigger New York, which had supported the proposed amendments, known as the consequence a “black eye for democracy” in a written assertion.
A response from state GOP Chair Nick Langworthy was not instantly out there.
