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Assemblyman Brian Curran (Lynbrook – 14th A.D.) co-sponsored Assembly Bill 3093, which allows villages that administer their own elections to use lever voting machines in those elections if they so choose.
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By Mary Malloy
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2/23/11
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A Nassau County Board of Elections worker has been charged with forging a petition for a County Legislature candidate in 2009. The District Attorney’s office has accused 27-year-old Imtiaz Insanally, of Valley Stream, with writing false addresses on a nominating petition.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/8/11
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On Election Day, angry voters all over the country focused their attention on Congress, deficits, the Obama health care plan, taxes and numerous other grievances. Incumbent politicians got the brunt …
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Jerry Kremer
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1/17/11
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Mineola Mayor Jack Martins was officially declared the victor in his race against 7th State District Senator Craig Johnson by a Nassau County Supreme Court Judge on Saturday. But Johnson announced on …
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Alex Costello
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12/8/10
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During his campaign, Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo’s transition team released a detailed and well-annotated report outlining plans for “Rightsizing Government.”
The report’s findings and recommendations reiterate much of what the previous columns in this series have suggested: that New York state’s Public Authorities and agencies have “become too big, too expensive, and too ineffective — an ever proliferating tangle of boards, commissions, councils, departments, divisions, offices, task forces and public authorities, [that] the taxpaying public can no longer afford.“
Amen.
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Hal Peterson
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12/1/10
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In a last-ditch effort to draw voters to the polls before the midterm elections, President Obama stood before Democrats at a rally in Southern California and said, “If Latinos sit out the election …
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Al D'Amato
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11/12/10
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The elections are now history. There were surprise winners and a few surprise losers on Long Island. Most voters don’t think that far ahead, but because of the climate we live in, 2011 won’t be a …
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Jerry Kremer
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11/12/10
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It took longer than usual for Nassau County election results to come in this year than it has in previous years, due apparently to the new electronic voting machine system that was implemented this …
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Alex Costello
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11/10/10
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The anticipated nationwide wave to oust incumbents didn’t make it all the way to the South Shore this Election Day, as most current office holders — both Democrats and Republicans — …
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Lee Landor
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11/10/10
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State Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R- Rockville Centre) was winning handily in his bid for a 14th term late Tuesday night, with voters in the 9th Senate District giving him 66 percent of the vote against his Democratic challenger, George Sava of Woodmere. With more than 60 percent of the votes counted at press time, unofficial results from the Nassau County Board of Elections had Skelos receiving 33,639 votes to Sava’s 17,528.
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Judy Rattner
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11/3/10
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