Albany Democrats push early voting for New York
Photo credit: Getty Images | Rockaway resident Sheresa Walker, left, uses a flashlight as poll worker Lloyd Edwards assists before voting in a makeshift tent set up as a polling place at Scholars' Academy, PS 180, in the Rockaways. (Nov. 6, 2012)
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ALBANY -- New York's consistently low voter turnout and the Election Day problems superstorm Sandy caused have sparked a drive by Democrats to make New York the 33rd state to adopt early voting.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) are backing proposals that would allow New Yorkers to cast ballots one or two weeks before Election Day. Cuomo said early voting...
