BREAKING: Governor Cuomo authorizes open voting Statewide

[kpete]

From the Governor's Twitter Feed:

Andrew Cuomo ?@NYGovCuomo
BREAKING: Gov has signed Exec. Order that will greatly facilitate #voting #sandy-affected 4 NYers #electionday, vote by affidavit

Andrew Cuomo ?@NYGovCuomo
BREAKING: Registered voters in #Rockland #Westchester #LI or #NYC: you can vote tom by affidavit ballot anywhere in #NYS #electionday

Andrew Cuomo ?@NYGovCuomo
Reg. voters in #Rockland #Westchester #LI #NYC: you can vote outside hm prec. in presidential&US Sen. elec, but not in local races
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/05/1156270/-Governor-Cuomo-authorizes-open-voting-Statewide

[meadowlark5]

1. This is how voting should be

Our elected officials should be doing everything possible to make voting easy and efficient. Unlike those stupid fucks in Ohio and Florida.

[hughee99]

5. It's still sort of an issue, if you want to vote in the local races.

If you ONLY want to vote on the national/statewide ticket, it works out okay, but there's no way to tell if someone is voting for local (congressional/county/town) races where they don't reside.

Will they have to make special ballots for those voting outside their district that may only have the President/Senator/Governor on them?

I don't think the "signed affidavit" system would work on a large scale nationally.

[meadowlark5]

6. I'm not saying that that should be the nation's voting system

I'm just commenting on Cuomo accommodating voters in anyway he can. Unlike Ohio and Florida. He's working to ensure anyone who wants to vote the chance to vote. He's not using this as some excuse to be able to invalidate hundreds of thousands of votes.

Every state should be working to accommodate voters and make voting easy. But then that doesn't benefit the republican party so we know that won't happen anytime soon.

[hughee99]

7. Sorry, I thought you were suggesting it should be how things are, nationally.

Personally, I think it would be great if you should go to any polling place, give them your voter info (where your from) and get a local ballot for your location, or simply vote online for those who have access, and have the whole thing handled with a national electronic election system, but that only works if you can trust the system, and I'm not sure that would ever be possible.

I'm glad to see the governor making allowances to allow everyone the opportunity to vote.

[Tx4obama]

2. Here's an article with some details, below

Cuomo Signs Order Allowing Hurricane Victims To Vote Anywhere
Source: NY Daily News

With Election Day turmoil expected because of the ongoing problems caused by Superstorm Sandy, Gov. Cuomo has signed an executive order allowing displaced voters to cast ballots at any polling site.

A person would go to a polling place, sign an affidavit and fill out a ballot anonymously, Cuomo said.

The vote will count for the presidential race or the U.S. Senate race.

But a person’s vote won’t count if they are voting at a site that is not their home state Senate or Assembly district.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2012/11/cuomo-signs-order-allowing-hurricane-victims-to-vote-anywhere

[liberal_at_heart]

3. woohoo

[virgogal]

4. It seems that only people from the storm affected counties can do this.