absentee voting

Hochul says it will make voting easier for average, working New Yorkers who have to juggle jobs, and caring for children and perhaps elderly parents as well.

Early voting for the 2022 election has started, and voters can learn more about the candidates up for office with this week's special election round-up. Check the following news stories from WAER this week to learn more about future voting predictions and the main concerns of different district candidates.

The Appellate Division Third Department sustains voting laws by expanding access to absentee voting.

The New York State Senate approves a package of bills to expand voter access, after voters in November rejected two ballot proposals to make it easier to vote. The bills would continue expanded absentee ballot voting that was allowed earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, and permit voters to cite the virus as a reason to skip going to the polls.

Voters in Onondaga County and across the state can expect some big changes to early and absentee voting next year after Governor Kathy Hochul signed four reform measures Thursday. One of them drops the population threshold for early voting sites, meaning there will be four more in Onondaga County, for a total of 10.

In this year's local office election, Central New Yorkers will see five statewide ballot proposals that will amend the state constitution. We look at three of them related to voting and elections.

Many of the ways ballot access was expanded in the 2020 election could make their way into permanent state law. The New York Senate approved a package of…

About half of the remaining 30,000 remaining absentee ballots in Onondaga County were reviewed and scanned Monday as the board of elections resumed…

The Onondaga County Board of Elections is expected to be back at full strength on Monday to count the remaining 30,000 absentee ballots. Democratic…

The process of counting 57,000 absentee ballots has begun in Onondaga County, something that could take until this time next week. WAER News stopped by…