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June 27, 2021 [The City] Voter Turnout Surged in AOC’s Queens and Dropped Where COVID Raged Worst by Ann Choi, Josefa Velasquez
June 18, 2021 [New York Times] N.Y.C. Is Emerging From a Crisis. Will Voters Show Up? By Ginia Bellafante
June 15, 2021 [City Hall Pass Podcast] Ranked Choice Voting w/ Laura Wood
June 15, 2021 [SI Advance] Pepperoni triumphs in NYC’s ranked-choice voting trial by Paul Liotta
June 10, 2021 [SI Advance] NYC launches pizza topping ballot to demonstrate ranked-choice voting; mayor endorses pepperoni by Paul Liotta
June 10, 2021 [Pix 11] ‘Don’t rank pineapple’: Mayor de Blasio demonstrates ranked choice voting with pizza toppings by Kristine Garcia
June 10, 2021 [AMNY] A slice of democracy: de Blasio’s pizza ballot showcasing ranked-choice voting sparks heated debate by Angélica Acevedo
May 24, 2021 [The City] Will Your Primary Vote Count? Why Thousands of New York Ballots Got Tossed by Samantha Maldonado
April 29, 2021 [SI Advance] NYC elections 2021: Confused about ranked-choice voting? Here’s what you need to know by Paul Liotta
April 28, 2021 [Gothamist] City Will Spend $15 Million To Educate NYers On Ranked-Choice Voting Ahead Of June Primary by Brigid Bergin
April 28, 2021 [NY1] City to spend $15 million to educate New Yorkers about ranked-choice voting by Ari Ephraim Feldman
March 2, 2021 [Gotham Gazette] Campaign Finance Board Details Ranked-Choice Voting Education Efforts by Grace Getman
November 3, 2020 [Gothamist] Election Observers And Other Volunteers Are Ready To Help At NYC Poll Sites by Brigid Bergin
October 26, 2020 [Gothamist] Long Lines Persist At Some Poll Sites As NYC Enters Drizzly Day 3 Of Early Voting by Jen Chung, David Cruz and Brigid Bergin
October 24, 2020 [The Hill] Vote: Speak Up Speak Out Push Back by Chirlane McCray
October 24, 2020 [NY Daily News] Early Voting Kicks off Saturday, a First in NYC for Presidential Race
October 15, 2020 [AM NY] Op-Ed | New Yorkers: Make your voting plan
October 7, 2020 [I Care If You Listen] 5 Questions to Eun Lee (Executive Director and Founder, The Dream Unfinished)
October 5, 2020 [Wall Street Journal] New York Seeks to Counter Sharp Drop in Registered Young Voters by Emma Tucker
September 29, 2020 [Gotham Gazette] Efforts Launched to Encourage Early Voting and Avoid Absentee Ballot Headaches by Ethan Geringer-Sameth
September 23, 2020 [City Limits] Snags in Cuomo's Bid to Restore Parolees' Voting Rights by Roshan Abraham
May 21, 2020 [AM NY] Op-Ed: Barriers reduced for NYC primary voters amid COVID-19 pandemic by amNewYork
May 19, 2020 [Gotham Gazette] What New York City Voters Need to Know About the June Primary Elections by Wayne Ho, Betsy Gotbaum, Ester Fuchs, Edward Cuesta, et al
May 14, 2020 [The City] What You Need to Know to Vote in New York's June Primary] by Rachel Holliday Smith
April 24, 2020 [Queens Daily Eagle] NYC's youth voter drive added nearly 30K students to election rolls by David Brand
March 31, 2020 [Gotham Gazette] Push for Online Voter Registration Bill as Coronavirus Prevents Registration Drives by Sammy Khurshid
March 17, 2020 [Gotham Gazette] Pre-Registering 16- and 17-Year-Olds to Vote the Focus of Second Annual City 'Civics Week' by Katie Kirker
February 20, 2020 [Queens Daily Eagle] City kicks off campaign to get out the youth vote by Jonathan Sperling
December 17, 2019 [Gothamist] City Proposes 2020 Early Voting Sites that Spare Children by Brigid Bergin
October 7, 2019 [Queens Daily Eagle] NYC Voter Guides Will Now Have Sign Language Option by Victoria Merlino
October 3, 2019 [Gotham Gazette] City Launches Pilot Voter Guide for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing New Yorkers by Sammy Khurshid