Board of elections officials said there are 25,000 new voter registrations in Monroe County so far this year.
Monroe County elections
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Dems hopeful for an upset in Greece
For a community with a population of fewer than 100,000, Greece’s scandals rival those of much larger places. Over the last decade, the town has been mired in the kinds of controversies, investigations, wrongdoings, and high-profile court cases that are usually reserved for nighttime television drama. The Greece Police Department became an algae bloom of […]
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Election 2005
This year’s general election has none of the excitement of the September primary for Rochester mayor, but it is an important election, in MonroeCounty and in the city. In the county, all 29 seats are on the ballot — with more than 40 candidates running. No newspaper can do justice to every candidate in that […]
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Looking for signs of life in the Lej
Last year, the prestigious BrennanCenter for Law and Justice at New YorkUniversity branded the New YorkState legislature the most “dysfunctional” in the United States. The phrase stuck. Even people who’d never read the report hopped on the Albany-bashing bandwagon. The momentum the BrennanCenter generated carried past the splash of the initial press coverage and, improbably, […]
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The Lej roundup: power and possibilities
For the first time in its history, the entire county legislature is up for grabs
