New York State Board of Elections

With a month until Election Day, voters are gearing up to make their decisions in local, state, and national elections across the country. With the disputed outcome of 2020 continuing to hang over this election, the people running the voting are under unprecedented and often unfounded scrutiny. WAMC spoke with New York State Board of Elections Public Information Director Kathleen McGrath about what voters should know ahead of the election and how her office is handling growing public doubt.

At a time when elections workers are facing increasing threats nationwide, the New York State Board of Elections says it received mail Tuesday containing a suspicious substance.

This week, New York state Board of Elections Commissioners approved the ballot language for a Constitutional amendment that will appear before voters this fall. But some supporters of the proposal to add anti-discrimination and health care autonomy provisions are concerned that the wording fails to meet plain language requirements.

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New York City officials have been subpoenaed by local and federal prosecutors amid an investigation into the mayor's campaign fundraising operation. Maya…