The Epoch Times New York’s legislature has approved an elections bill modeled on legislation that failed to pass in the United States Congress.
“We have passed the most powerful and most comprehensive voting rights protections in America,” Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, a Democrat, said in a statement.
The bill, S1046E, amends election law in New York in order to “encourage participation in the elective franchise,” or elections, “by all eligible voters to the maximum extent.”
It says that all laws related to elections must be “construed liberally in favor of” protecting the right to vote and making sure minority voters have “equitable access” to the voting process…
