White Plains, NY — Westchester County Legislators are urging State lawmakers to pass a law allowing drop-boxes for voters to use in casting absentee ballots this fall.

White Plains, NY — Expanded early voting hours; a multimedia campaign to encourage early voting; multi-lingual video instructions for how to vote by absentee ballot; changes in poll worker procedures to increase the number of available workers; drop boxes for the return of absentee ballots; the availability of necessary voting equipment; and information-sharing partnerships with voter advocacy organizations -- these are just some of the recommendations for how to improve voting this November contained in a newly issued report from the Board of Legislators' Election Information Gathering Task Force.

White Plains, NY — The Board of Legislators has set Tuesday, November 3, the date of the upcoming general election, as the date for a special election to fill the District 13 legislative seat in Mount Vernon. That seat became vacant August 6 when former Legislator Lyndon Williams stepped down to become City Court Judge in Mount Vernon.

Board Chairman Ben Boykin, long-time Mount Vernon Legislator and soon-to-be Mount Vernon City Court Judge Lyndon Williams, together with Board Majority Leader MaryJane Shimsky, and Legislators David Tubiolo, Terry Clements, Vedat Gashi, and Ruth Walter, proudly joined County Executive George Latimer, Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard, Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, and others for a groundbreaking ceremony marking the beginning of a long-awaited project to restore Mount Vernon's Memorial Field.