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High Scores for New York on Common Cause’s 2024 Democracy Scorecard
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Groups Urge Government to Adopt New Measures to do the People’s Business
Common Cause/NY, League of Women Voters New York, NYPIRG, Reinvent Albany, and Citizens Union encourage lawmakers to vote remotely.
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“I think we are headed in the right direction,” said Susan Lerner, executive director of the Common Cause-NY good-government group which has long supported opening the budget process more to rank-and-file legislators and the public. “They still don’t know how to do a legislative process.”