As the country experiences a pandemic and equally historic demand for political and criminal justice reform, New York moves forward toward its June 23 primaries and the November election. Among the many steps taken by Gov. Andrew Cuomo have included several emergency Executive Orders. He postponed the presidential primary from April 28 to June 23.  He cancelled several special elections that were to fill vacancies in the state legislature and the office of Queens Borough President. He slashed the number of signatures on designating petitions to run for office in political party primaries, and shortened the period within which to circulate petitions. And he ordered that each registered voter will automatically receive in the mail an absentee ballot application, declaring that the existence of the COVID-19 virus was sufficient reason for everyone to vote by mail without having to satisfy the normal statutory conditions to do so.

His actions were reminiscent of his Executive Order in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, when he directed that any voter who lived in an affected county could vote by affidavit ballot outside his or her designated site.

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