Myrie wants more early voting polling sites in 2020
BOROUGHWIDE— New York State should open more polling sites for early voting when the presidential election rolls around next year, according to a Brooklyn lawmaker who said he will work on giving voters easier access to the ballot box.
State Sen. Zellnor Myrie, chairperson of the Senate’s Elections Committee, said the state expects an “unprecedented turnout” for the presidential election in 2020.
Myrie, a freshman Democrat representing Crown Heights and parts of Brownsville, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Park Slope and Sunset Park, held a joint hearing on Nov. 20 with Assemblymember Charles Lavine, chairperson of the Assembly Elections Committee, to look at the inaugural early voting process and discuss ways to improve the system.