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May 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The NY Senate Finance Committee will be voting on the #NYVRA and its companion data bill (among other bills) at around 11 AM! nysenate.gov/calendar/meeti…
Meeting now starting!
The Senate Finance Committee just passed the #NYVRA!
WOOO the Senate Finance Committee just passed the data companion bill to the #NYVRA! Both bills now moved to the floor!! 🤩
Correction: Both bills now move to the Senate Rules Committee. Hopefully that committee will meet soon!

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May 19
I've read/skimmed through the bulk of the comments submitted to the NY Special Master on the proposed Congressional & State Senate maps.

A thread on some of the more common issues brought up:
Some of the suggestions are obvious, common sense changes. Some are good ideas but may require somewhat larger changes.

Others are difficult or impossible really to accomplish, but are still common complaints
NY-20: Keep the Capitol Region congressional district whole, including Albany, Troy, Schenectady, Saratoga Springs, and Amsterdam.

The Special Master's map splits the last 2 out of the district. This comment makes up, like, 70% of all comments submitted!
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May 19
Their proposal is, uh, certainly something, that's for sure
Outside of NYC, they propose gerrymandering Long Island to make a clearly GOP-leaning NY-02 that doesn't at all reflect the North Shore/South Shore divide, make clearly Republican-leaning changes to the Hudson Valley districts...
...and purposefully redraw Western NY & NY-19 so that NY-19 loses Cortland and Tompkins while gaining a bunch of Republican counties.

Also, for some reason, they leave Saratoga Springs in NY-21 instead of putting it back in NY-20
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May 18
lol are you fucking kidding me
please, Suozzi, explain how bail reform is connected to the Buffalo shooting. I'll wait.
This absolute nincompoop will blame *anything* and *everything* on bail reform, no matter how unrelated
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May 17
The full NY Senate is about to vote on a TON of incredible reform efforts to BOEs and for pollworkers! Really hoping these can also make their way through the Assembly before the legislative session ends!
Perhaps the most important bill they'll pass in the Senate today would completely restructure the NYC Board of Elections: nysenate.gov/legislation/bi…
Senator Lanza just went into a lengthy rant decrying this bill as taking power and being anti-Republican... despite the fact this bill would keep the structure as the same # of Democratic and Republican BOE commissioners (1 each rather than 5 each)
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May 16
New NY Senate maps are up! davesredistricting.org/join/ad0a597f-…
Cervas' pdf on the proposed NY State Senate map here: iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDoc…
It looks like Cervas' proposed NY State Senate districts went 48 Biden/15 Trump in 2020
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Nov 3, 2021
With in-person early votes & election day votes in, Write-ins lead the Buffalo Mayoral race by over 17%.

Here's a breakdown of winner performance by precinct and municipality:
For a clearer look at the race, here's the margin of victory in each precinct and ward with these unofficial results.

Byron Brown's write-in campaign got a *ton* of support in South Buffalo:
(By ward, I meant municipality)
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