New York Election Officials Worry About Oversized Ballots Due to Moving Some Local Elections to Even Years

Earlier this year, the New York legislature passed a controversial bill, moving most town and county office elections from November of odd years, to November of even years. The bill has not yet been signed into law.

This story says election officials are worried that the bill, if signed, will create over-sized ballots in even years. The reason for the bill was to save money, but the law still requires odd year elections for judicial races, city offices, and these county offices: clerks, sheriffs, and district attorneys. The elections for those offices couldn’t be moved without changing the state constitution.


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New York Election Officials Worry About Oversized Ballots Due to Moving Some Local Elections to Even Years — 12 Comments

  1. How very unfortunate to have multiple elective offices and secret ballots requiring trust that the tally is accurate, especially across multiple precincts, rather than open, on the record voting to select one party to fill (and replace as needed) one office in one precinct once per year.

  2. NY MOVE-

    OBVIOUS MACHINATION TO REDUCE COMPETITION AGAINST STATE HACKS

    — REGARDLESS OF EFFECT ON BALLOT SIZES

    LARGEST BALLOT IN USA IN 2020 AND 2022 WAS WHERE ???

  3. Next, the legislature in NY will be saying that they need to eliminate elections altogether in order to save money. Whomever the Democrats nominate will simply be installed in office.

  4. I don’t understand what about state run media AZ wants me to respond about. I did attend postgraduate studies in Britain as well as the US, but am no expert on British history. Whatever AZ wants to know about it is at least as open to his inquiry as mine. Additionally, while I’ve been told my English is quite passable, I’ve little familiarity with the AZ dialect. It doesn’t appear to be Michigander, Arizonan, or anything else I can place. Sans translation, it hardly seems worth the effort.

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