Imagine if the Board of Elections put seven separate elected officials — Congressman, Senator, Governor, Comptroller, Attorney General, Assembly member, and State Senator — on the same ballot line, and made you mark just one oval to choose all of them.
Sounds like the old Soviet Union.
The decision by the 2010 New York City Charter Revision Commission to group seven unrelated proposals under ballot Question 2 — based on an opinion that the ballot was too small to show them separately — is just as cynical: It’s a way of telling voters, “If we let you vote seven or eight times, you could get confused and forget to vote ‘Yes’ on everything we want.” Continue reading
City Limits
“The vast majority of the members of the commission publicly are opposed to term limits, period.”
What charter revision?
We have to take our hat off to Clyde Haberman, a superbly skilled journalist, for bringing humor to his 
On January 28 — two months before Michael Bloomberg convened a 2010 New York City Charter Revision Commission — 
Unless the details of the NYC Charter Revision Commission’s final ballot questions deviate sharply from what was in the commission’s 
NYC Charter Revision: We missed portions of Monday’s webcast NYC charter revision commission hearing when our Internet access crashed. Here’s what we managed to see and hear: 
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