{"id":99155,"date":"2026-01-13T20:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99155\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:18:30","slug":"senate-passes-electoral-reform-package-including-bills-introduced-by-queens-gonzalez-gianaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/99155\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes electoral reform package, including bills introduced by Queens\u2019 Gonzalez, Gianaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate has passed a legislative package aiming to safeguard election workers and modernize election systems in New York state, including legislation introduced by state Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2025\/11\/gonzalez-state-of-the-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kristen Gonzalez<\/a> and Michael Gianaris.<\/p>\n<p>The legislative package also aims to crack down on deceptive practices that suppress voters, including the use of artificial intelligence to spread misinformation during election campaigns. The package also proposes moving New York\u2019s presidential primary to Super Tuesday to elevate the state\u2019s influence in the presidential nomination process.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/01\/electoral-reform-package-gianaris-gonzalez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSenate passes electoral reform package, including bills introduced by Queens\u2019 Gonzalez, Gianaris &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The state Senate has passed a legislative package aiming to safeguard election workers and modernize election systems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[45604,3946,45605,40774,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,45606,45607],"class_list":["post-99155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-democracy-day","tag-kristen-gonzalez","tag-legislative-package","tag-michael-gianaris","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-senate-majority-leader-andrea-stewart-cousins","tag-senator-zellnor-myrie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}