absentee ballots

New Yorkers can again choose to vote by absentee rather than face the risk of catching COVID-19 at polling sites through the rest of 2022 under a bill that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Friday.

In the final hours of 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law two bills that would expand the use and accessibility of absentee ballots going forward.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York election workers would have to start counting absentee ballots earlier under legislation that passed the state Senate…

Republican lawmakers vowed to make changes in response to false claims of election fraud in 2020, when Democrats won the presidential race in Georgia then flipped both U.S. Senate seats.

With many more people voting by mail this fall, election officials feared that millions of ballots would be rejected in the general election. Instead, rejection rates went down across the country.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Policies favoring secrecy over transparency have meant that New Yorkers will be among the last Americans to learn the final vote…

Democrat John Mannion is claiming victory in the 50th State Senate District race over Republican Angi Renna, who led by more than 7,000 votes on election…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York may permanently expand voting by mail — something it tried on a wide scale for the first time this year — while also trying…

The counting of absentee ballots in Onondaga County might not resume until the end of the month, after eight positive cases of COVID-19 were reported…

Onondaga County has suspended it’s absentee ballot count until sometime next week, after a Board of Elections worker tested positive for the…