YNN New York reports “New York State has yet to comply with a new federal law requiring states to send its residents, overseas and in the military, voting ballots at least 45 days before an election, something that’s difficult if not impossible with the state’s short general election calendar.

“It really insists that we give every single military voter and overseas voter an opportunity to get their ballot in a timely fashion and return it in a timely fashion,” said Joan Millman, Assembly Election Committee Chair.”

Despite multiple failures in past New York elections in sending timely ballots to overseas military voters, there may finally be fundamental reforms enacted by the New York legislature to ensure that adequate time is provided to prepare and send ballots to these voters.