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The New York State Board of Elections is a bipartisan agency of the New York state government within the New York State Executive Department responsible for enforcement and administration of election-related laws. [1] [2] It also regulates campaign finance disclosure and limitations through its "fair campaign code". [1] [3]
In a 1936 referendum, voters in New York City voted in favour of the adoption of the single transferable vote method of proportional representation. The adoption of STV produced more balanced representation. In the election immediately preceding STV's adoption, the Democrats won 95.3% of the seats on the Board of Aldermen with only 66.5% of the ...
The 2025 New York's 21st congressional district special election is an expected special election to choose a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The seat is expected to become vacant as Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik was chosen by president Donald Trump to be his nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. [1]
In doing so, New York abandoned its Shoup lever machines which had been used since 1962 and were originally built by American Voting Machines Company in Jamestown, New York. [1] [2] [3] New York had a long established history with the lever machines going back to the patent for the lever machine by Alfred J. Gillespie and Standard Voting ...
A resident checks in to vote during the New York City mayoral primary election at the Brooklyn Museum polling station on June 22, 2021 in New York City.
In special elections for state legislative offices, primaries are usually not held - county committee members for each party select nominees. However, due to its proximity to the 2013 New York City Council election, party-specific primaries were held.
A Board of Elections bigwig accused of sexually harassing two employees said gays “bothered” him and “heterosexuals were being discriminated against” at the city agency, an explosive new ...
The results of elections in the state of New York have tended to be more Democratic-leaning than in most of the United States, with in recent decades a solid majority of Democratic voters, concentrated in New York City and some of its suburbs, including Westchester County, Rockland County and Long Island's Nassau county, and in the cities of ...