Bills have been introduced in the New York legislature to ease the deadline for voters to join a party, if they wish to vote in that party’s presidential primary. They are A8228 and S6422. Current law says they can’t vote in a presidential primary unless they had joined that party in the previous year. The bills would ease that to early in the current year.

The Assembly bill passed the Assembly Elections Committee on June 12, and was sent to the Assembly Rules Committee.