{"id":89268,"date":"2018-03-15T21:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T01:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89268"},"modified":"2018-03-15T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:52:05","slug":"brindisi-its-time-to-implement-early-voting-in-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89268","title":{"rendered":"Brindisi: It&#8217;s time to implement early voting in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-80461\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14-400x571.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Brindisi-head-shot-color-10.14.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Brindisi: It&#8217;s time to implement early voting in NY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi of Utica issued the following statement following Governor Cuomo\u2019s decision to include $7 million in his 30-day budget amendments to fund early voting in New\u00a0 York state:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAllowing New York residents to vote early is a change I wholeheartedly support.\u00a0 New York is one of the few states where voters cannot cast their ballots early, and many of my constituents have told me they support a system allowing early voting.\u00a0 In the recent 2016 general election, New York ranked 41<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0among the 50 states in voter participation.\u00a0 This proposal will boost civic interest and participation in elections, and also will remove barriers to voting.\u00a0 I strongly support legislation to establish early voting within 14 days for primary and general elections because the right to vote is a cornerstone of our democracy, and in today\u2019s busy society, it will allow more citizens to have a voice and a vote.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brindisi: It&#8217;s time to implement early voting in NY Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi of Utica issued the following statement following Governor Cuomo\u2019s decision to include $7 million in his 30-day budget amendments to fund early voting in New\u00a0 York state: \u201cAllowing New York residents to vote early is a change I wholeheartedly support.\u00a0 New York is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}