A bipartisan coalition of 21 states filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the states’ practice of including both voters and nonvoters in drawing state legislative election districts this week. The brief argues that counting nonvoters with ...

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ALBANY — A panel of federal judges says the new election district lines drawn by the Senate and Assembly majorities will be used in the fall elections. The decision is a critical win for Senate Republicans hoping to secure their ...

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ALBANY — New York’s Republican-led Senate and the Assembly’s Democratic majority this week are expected to release the new election districts they propose for use over the next 10 years. Good-government groups are wary the majorities will use the process ...

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ALBANY — The fight over whether New York's prisoners should be considered residents where their prison cell is located or their home town just got more heated. Civil rights groups have filed a legal motion ...

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ALBANY — Senate majority Republicans have advanced a constitutional amendment to reform New York’s notorious gerrymandering. But in a critical committee vote Monday, Democrats opposed the measure ...

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