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Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York and Henal Patel, director of the Law & Policy program at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), talk about the nuts and bolts of how to vote in New York and New Jersey, and what to do if problems arise.

On Monday, the Democratically-controlled legislature rejected the new districts proposed by the redistricting commission and offered their own new maps overnight. Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about the latest on New York's redistricting process and why they are calling for changes to the process before the next census.

This week I talk with my good friend, Susan Lerner, of Common Cause New York . We talk about the work her organization is doing to protect voters in New York. We also talk about her goals for the upcoming NY Legislative session.

Congressman faced criticism over press policy More than four months after barring journalists from his "town hall" constituent forums, Rep. Mike Lawler, whose U.S. House district includes Philipstown, last week abruptly changed course. Lawler, a Republican who took office in January 2023, explained in a Jan. 5 news release that he had instituted the restrictions because he wanted to make the events "as hospitable and welcoming as possible," use them for "hearing directly from constituents with serious questions or concerns," and protect them "from being hijacked by out-of-district political grandstanders." While he claimed in his statement that the ban had only applied to reporters who did not live in the district, the ground rules for a Dec. 17 event at a public school in Westchester County said that "members of the press who are residents of the 17th Congressional District may attend in their capacity as a constituent, not as a member of the press." Lawler introduced the restrictions on Aug. 22, when his staff prevented me from photographing or recording a town hall held inside a Carmel public school. I was able to register and attend the event as a constituent and took notes for a story; Lawler's office later provided photographs. Citing The Current's subsequent coverage, Common Cause New York, which describes itself as a nonpartisan organization that promotes good government, launched a petition urging the public to "tell Congressman Lawler: open your town halls to the press." In addition, the U.S Press Freedom Tracker created by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Committee to Protect Journalists listed the Aug. 22 incident in its database of obstacles to news coverage. At Lawler's Dec. 17 town hall, Margaret Yonco-Haines, a Philipstown resident, challenged the ban. At the onset of the town halls, she told Lawler, "many of us were just astonished that you did not allow" media access, even though the events were "financed by the taxpayers and held in a public location" and coverage can tell those who could not be present "what happens" at such meetings. "Why are these not allowed to be covered by the press?" Lawler replied that his town halls were "actually about engaging in conversations," not about having his remarks taken "out of context or mischaracterized." He emphasized his willingness to accept questions and "engage in discussions and debate. I have done more interviews than any member of the New York delegation," he asserted. "So for any reporter to somehow suggest that I'm not available" or willing to talk "is a joke. It's a joke." Although Yonco-Haines questioned Lawler's ban, another attendee on Dec. 17 praised it. The news media "have been pushing back," he told Lawler. "You wouldn't be represented fairly" in coverage. As discussion ensued, Lawler incorrectly claimed that his predecessor, Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat whom Lawler defeated in 2022, "would not go to communities that did not support him or vote for him." In fact, at an outdoor town hall in Carmel in 2021, Maloney drew - and responded to - strident criticism; he similarly fielded hostile questions on other occasions. Sam Silverman, press secretary for Rep. Pat Ryan, a first-term Democrat whose district includes Beacon, said on Wednesday (Jan. 10) that the press is welcome at Ryan's town halls and other public gatherings. "I don't think it's anything we really thought about" until Lawler was criticized, he said. Ryan's office sends out notices about pending events "and the press shows up - or doesn't show up, frankly. I'd like them to show up more." Less than three weeks after his Dec. 17 defense of his ban, Lawler rescinded it. Going forward, he said, "officially credentialed members of the press will be allowed" into town halls with cameras and recording devices, if they register. They do not have to be residents of the district, he added. He also pledged, "at the conclusion of each town hall, and after I have had an opportunity to e...

This week I do a quick update on the pending court proceedings for #SD50 and then I interview Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York. We talk about the last election and priorities for election law reform in the next session of the NYS Legislature. Enjoy.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about the court-ordered special master's new district maps and what they mean for New York's communities.

Redistricting Whiplash in NY, FL & NHLinks for Today:New York -  NBC article on new court Congressional map, Common Cause New YorkFlorida - Miami Herald article on court stay, likely appeal lifted on Congressional map, Fair Districts FloridaNew Hampshire - InDepth NH article, Open Democracy ActionYou're listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping your government by and for the people.We have some redistricting whiplash for you in New York, Florida & New Hampshire.   In New York, after the Congressional district map gerrymandered by Democrats was ruled unconstitutional, a state court has created its own map, which throws multiple incumbents into races against each other, including U.S. House Judiciary and Oversight chairs, Rep. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney in the newly drawn 12th Congressional District.  Common Cause New York objected to the map, which it says  divides communities of interest and neighborhoods. In Florida, a court-ordered alternative map to the Congressional map Governor Ron Desantis signed had its stay lifted.  The state is expected to appeal to stop it, but voting groups have asked that any appeal be fast tracked directly to the Florida Supreme Court.  The Desantis map dilutes the heavily African American Congressional District 5 in north Florida, reducing the chances that a Black member of Congress would be elected.  The court's map keeps most of District 5 intact.  Florida has a constitutional amendment forbidding gerrymandering for partisan purposes.In New Hampshire, another Congressional map proposal has been made, tempering earlier proposals which gerrymandered the Granite State's two Congressional districts to be uncompetitive.  But an independent citizen mapping group says Senate Bill 200 is only slightly less bad than the previous proposals.  Governor Chris Sununu has pledged to veto gerrymandered maps, but has already signed heavily gerrymandered NH Senate & Executive Council maps.   We have more information and links to the groups fighting gerrymandering  at our website, AmericanDemocracyMinute.org/  Granny D said, “Democracy is not something we have, it's something we DO.” For the American Democracy Minute, I'm Brian Beihl.https://www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2022/05/17/american-democracy-minute-for-may-18-2022-redistricting-whiplash-in-ny-fl-nh/

Today I speak with Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York. We talk about what her l=organization and Let NY Vote will be looking for in election reform in the upcoming session. She also weighs in on the redistricting with Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse as she has been a major proponent of redistricting reform nationally as well as locally. Enjoy.

October 7, 2021 - The ballot referendum reforming the state's redistricting process has divided good government advocates, so we got the two sides from Jennifer Wilson, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of New York State, and Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about what she is seeing at poll sites, answers last-minutes ranked choice voting questions and explains why the counting process will take so much time. Plus, listeners call in to share who they voted for.

New York City is using "ranked choice voting" for the first time. It's the largest implementation so far of this different way of tallying votes. On Today's Show:It's the day of the primary, so we asked listeners to call in for an "exit poll" on how they decided their ballot rankings. Plus, Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, talks about what she is seeing at poll sites, answers last-minutes ranked choice voting questions and explains why the counting process will take so much time.

Jan. 13, 2021 - What's on the docket for good government groups in 2021? Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause New York, discussed the list when she joins the program.

With ballots in the mail for the Queens 24 special election, the first in the city to use ranked choice voting, Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, and Jagpreet Singh, lead organizer at Chhaya, explain how it works and answer your questions. For more information on Ranked Choice Voting, see RankTheVoteNYC.org or Vote.nyc.

Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York and Sean Dugar of Rank the Vote NYC explain the genius of ranked choice voting. Plus a cartoon, read aloud, in our first-ever Brickhouse crossover with brand-new comics site Awry, and Alex Brook Lynn mourns her lemon of a classic Cadillac no longer worth the squeeze.

“We have to adjust our expectations, we're not going to know who the projected winner is at the end of Election Night this year.” In our previous episode with Susan Lerner, the inspiring Executive Director of Common Cause New York, she provided our podcast listeners with a perfectly accurate prediction of the 2020 election days before it even happened. It is now November 5th and indeed, we still don't know who the projected winner is. As we wait anxiously for all of the votes in key states to be fully counted in key states like Nevada and Pennsylvania, we can't help but look back on our insightful conversation with Susan Lerner and urge you to do the same. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

“We are way past the time where voters should be sitting on the sidelines hoping it all comes out okay.” With the fateful night of November 3rd drawing ever closer, Susan Lerner, the inspiring Executive Director of Common Cause New York, directly addressed our podcasters and young people as a whole on the various ways to make an impact on this unprecedented election even if you aren't able to vote just yet. Guiding our conversation with Susan, this election night will inevitably look drastically different than those in the past and we should approach our way of making an impact accordingly. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

At this week's Round Table, Divya, Inica, Isaiah, Madeline, and Olivia speak with Susan Lerner, the passionate and inspiring Executive Director of Common Cause New York. We discussed voting rights--and wrongs. Our conversation was simultaneously sobering, acknowledging the many problems that are playing out in relation to this year's election, AND inspiring, celebrating the power of the vote and the heroism on display by the many many millions of people who have committed to not letting the pandemic get in the way of our democratic power. Wherever you fall on the political spectrum, the next week (and possibly well beyond) is likely to be nerve-wracking. We're particularly happy to have you join us for this episode and look forward to working together to make the most of what lies ahead. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

On September 29, 100,000 New Yorkers (myself among them) received misprinted absentee ballots that had someone else's name on the return envelopes. The gaffe was the result of a multimillion-dollar error from a third-party vendor (way to go, Phoenix Graphics), but it's still not a great look for the New York City Board of Elections, which has a history of negligent and sometimes suspicious practices that have left thousands of voters disenfranchised in past elections. (The board is mailing corrected ballots out to voters this week.)In this important voter empowerment episode, I talk with Sarah Goff, deputy director of Common Cause New York, who joins me to discuss what happened with Brooklyn's absentee ballots, how the New York City Board of Elections actually works, and outlines what we New Yorkers can do to make sure our voices are heard in the 2020 election.For more info on how and when to vote in New York, please visit: vote.nyc (for NYC), www.elections.ny.gov (for elsewhere in New York State) and check out my blog at votinginthedark.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Kuperstein sits down with Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York to talk about an illegal purge of the voter rolls in New York City - and gets a rundown of what you need to know about making sure your vote counts this Election Day.

Henal Patel, director of the Democracy and Justice program at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ), Laura Smits, vice president of voter services for the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, and Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, explain how to vote in the tri-state area and answer listeners' questions about voting and making sure your vote counts.

**This podcast was recorded using WebEx** | August 6, 2020Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause New York, discusses the importance of voting and its relationship to Common Cause’s mission and advocacy work.National Voter Registration Day is Tuesday, September 22nd. **Resources**commoncause.org/nySupport the show (https://donate.democracyengine.com/DRNY/contribute)

Given that a significant portion of poll workers are typically over the age of 60 (and more vulnerable to COVID-19 complications), there is a shortage of poll workers for the upcoming election.  Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, and Brianna Cea, CEO and co-founder of Generation Vote, talk about the effort to recruit workers from the ranks of young voters.  ⇒Power to the Polls for more information on poll working, nationwide. ⇒National Poll Worker Recruitment Day, September 1st

In this week's episode I talk to Common Cause New York's Susan Lerner about the fallout of the June 23rd primary throughout the state and her work with Fair Maps CNY to bring Citizen Led redistricting to Onondaga County. Follow along the campaign at fairmapscny.org

On The Brian Lehrer Show, Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, argues New York's elections are in need of reforms. Later, Gloria Pazmino, politics reporter at Politico New York, talks about who may be on the ballot in the November election, and how thay might affect the political makeup of the New York State Senate. 

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This episode we travel to a future where the 2020 census goes haywire. What happens if we don’t get an accurate count of Americans? Who cares? Apparently the constitution does!     The 2020 census is currently in the crosshairs — census watchers say that it’s not getting enough funding, and community organizations and local governments are already worrying about what an inaccurate census might mean for their people.     To walk us through the current perils facing the census I talked to Hansi Lo Wang, a national correspondent for NPR who has been covering the census; Phil Sparks, the co-director of The Census Project, an organization that brings together groups who use census data; Susan Lerner, the director of Common Cause New York, a government watchdog group; Cayden Mak, the executive director of 18 Million Rising, an online organizing group that works with Asian American communities; and Dawn Joelle Fraser, a storyteller and communications coach who worked for the census in 2010.     Further reading:    Could A Census Without A Leader Spell Trouble In 2020?   US Census Director Resigns Amid Turmoil Over Funding of 2020 Count  Departure of U.S. Census director threatens 2020 count  The 2020 Census is at risk. Here are the major consequences  With 2020 Census Looming, Worries About Fairness and Accuracy  Trump's threat to the 2020 Census  NAACP lawsuit alleges Trump administration will undercount minorities in 2020 Census  Census 2020: How it’s supposed to work (and how it might go terribly wrong)  Census watchers warn of crisis if 2020 funding is not increased  Likely Changes in US House Seat Distribution for 2020  What Census Calls Us: A Historical Timeline  As 2020 Census Approaches, Worries Rise Of A Political Crisis After The Count  The American Census: a social history by Margo J. Anderson  The Story Collider podcast: Dawn Fraser, The Mission    Note: This is the second to last episode of this season of Flash Forward! The last episode drops January 9th, and then the show will be in hiatus for a few months while I prep for season 4, which is going to be great I can already assure you! If you want to follow along with the prep for season 4, and just generally keep up with what's going on with the show and when it's coming back stay in touch via Twitter, Facebook , Reddit, or, best of all, Patreon, where I'll post behind the scenes stuff as I get ready for the next Flash Forward adventures.    Also, I’m going on tour with PopUp Magazine in February! Get your tickets at popupmagazine.com.    Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. Special thanks this week to Liz Neeley who voiced our discouraged bureaucrat. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.     If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool.     And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! Head to www.flashforwardpod.com/support for more about how to give. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to iTunes and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help.     As a bonus, at the end of this episode, you'll hear a human chorus record a psalm that was written by Janelle Shane's machine learning algorithm. (Remember her from the super religion episode?) and arranged by Hamish Symington and Owain Park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Common Cause New York director, Susan Lerner and host Ronnie Eldridge talk about our electoral system, described by Susan Lerner as "...mired in the 19th century." They discuss the need to overhaul the election system-from top to bottom.

Doug is joined by Dick Dadey, Exec. Dir. of Citizens Union; Lucia Gomez-Jimenez, Exec. Dir. of La Fuente; and Susan Lerner, Exec. Dir. of Common Cause New York. The panel discusses the redistricting of the State of New York.

  2011 marks the year for redistricting – the once-in-a-decade process to draw boundaries that determine your elected officials from local school boards and city councils to state and congressional representatives.   As all 50 states begin drawing lines, battles will ensue among political parties, racial and other interest groups. On this edition, we examine the U.S. redistricting system and some of its pitfalls. What is gerrymandering and how does it affect us? How does the rise in prison population change power dynamics? What does the rise in Latino population mean for redistricting? And how can the redistricting process be fairer?   Featuring:   Barack Obama, U.S. president; Bernie Grofman, UC Irvine political science professor; Justin Levitt, New York University's Brennan Center for Justice counsel; Ed Rollins, former RNC chairman; Susan Lerner, Common Cause New York; Nancy Cordes, CBS News; Christina Hartman, Newsy.org; Alex Kellogg, NPR; EJ Dionne, NPR; Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Institute executive director; Neil Breslin, New York state senator; Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Hispanic Center associate director; Nina Perales, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund litigation director; Lydia Camarillo, Southwest Voters Registration Education Project vice president.  For More Information: Gerrymandering movie: http://www.gerrymanderingmovie.com/   Prison Policy Institute http://www.prisonpolicy.org/ Northampton, MA   Pew Hispanic Center http://pewhispanic.org/ Washington, DC Southwest Voters Registration Education Project http://www.svrep.org/ San Antonio, TX Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund http://www.maldef.org/ NYU's Brennan Center for Justice: http://www.brennancenter.org/content/pages/redistricting_for_advocates New York, NY   California Statewide Database: http://swdb.berkeley.edu/resources/ Berkeley, CA   The Redistricting Game: http://www.redistrictinggame.org/   U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/   Purdue University's links to redistricting resources for each state: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/govdocs/redistricting.html The post Making Contact – April 15, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.