Nassau legislators serve two-year terms and there are no term limits. Other countywide offices, including that of the county ...

A landmark settlement in a suit brought by Democrats was signed on Thursday, Jan. 23, providing Nassau County with a new ...

A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised ...

New York's Nassau County agreed on Thursday to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color. Once approved by the court, the county will ...

The second lawsuit, filed last February by the Brooklyn-based advocacy group New York Communities for Change, alleged racially polarized voting occurred in Nassau and the redistricting plan "dilutes ...

Now, once signed by the Court, a consent decree in New York Communities for Change v. Nassau County will replace that discriminatory map with a politically fair map that includes six districts in ...

The settlement -- the first of its kind under the New York Municipal Home Rule Law and New York Voting Rights Act -- secures fair maps for Nassau County voters, replacing Nassau County's current ...

FILE - A woman marks her ballot inside of a voting center during early voting in the states' presidential primary election, March 26, 2024, in Freeport, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File ...

staff attorney with the New York Civil Liberties Union, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the team. In February 2024, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman introduced the ban in the form of an ...

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color. Nassau County reached a ...