A growing number of advocates are calling for action before the end of the legislative session but the path through the legislature is unclear.
, a priority before the Legislature winds down its final month of session.
Other states have already enacted their own voting rights bills including California, Washington, Oregon and Virginia. Since 1968 and up until that ruling, elections in the Bronx, Kings, and New York counties were subject to federal oversight by the Justice Department. Myrie is the lead sponsor of the Senate bill and stressed the significance of it moving forward, noting thein Congress to pass either the Freedom to Vote Act or the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. He said passage of the NY VRA would be felt beyond the state.
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