2022 State Budget Testimony

Common Cause New York's testimony before two budget hearings.

Our state priorities reflect our values, a better democracy for all New Yorkers.

New York City’s uneven and low levels of civic and political engagement are the direct result of centuries of explicit and implicit exclusionary racist policies promulgated and executed by city and state government. It seems that every few years, New York City is reminded of our failures to meaningfully redress the generational damage. Nowhere is it more visible in our civic life than the low turnout in our state and local elections.

Ranked Choice Voting works, the Board of Elections does not.

The systemic failures in Oneida County in 2020 that engulfed a close congressional race, which resulted in months long delays and a protracted court battle, demand immediate action and reform.