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Election News
Bard College Awarded $399,000 Grant from Mellon Foundation for Project on Voting Rights
Bard College is proud to announce that it has received a $399,000 award from the Mellon Foundation to support a three-year applied learning research curricular project on voting rights. The project, done in collaboration with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Tuskegee University, Prairie View A&M University, and The Andrew Goodman Foundation, will use the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 and outlawed age-based voter discrimination, as a prism through which to understand the history of voting and disenfranchisement in the United States and the role of college communities in the fight for voting rights.
On Election Day, Bard Students Vote at Bertelsmann Campus Center after the College’s Legal Victory for Polling Place on Campus
Bard Executive Vice President and Director of Center for Civic Engagement Jonathan Becker and Bard senior Huba Zaman ’23 speak with WAMC Northeast Public Radio about the legal fight to secure a fully functional polling site on campus. “I’m just super excited that Bard has made it that much easier for students to go out and have their voices heard,” said Zaman.
- Bard College Secures Fully Functioning On-Campus Polling Site for 2022 General Election
- “New York Must Build a Better Election System,” Writes Jonathan Becker in an Op-Ed for the Times Union
- Bard Files Complaint with New York State Board of Elections to Stop Understaffing and Underequipping at Polling Site
- New Legislation Will Bring Polling Places to New York College Campuses
- Vice President for Civic Engagement Erin Cannan and Sadia Saba ’21 Discuss Bard’s Polling Location Win on Live the Legacy
- Bard's Jonathan Becker on WAMC: "New York State can help overcome voter suppression of college students"
- A Decades-Long Battle: How Bard College Won An On-Campus Polling Site
- New York Appeals Court Unanimously Affirms Bard Campus Polling Site
- Judge Again Rules in Favor of Voting at Bard
Who/What Are On The 2023 Ballot?
JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT 9TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Francesca E. Connolly (D,C)
Charley Wood (D,C)
Rolf M. Thorsen (D,C)
Larry J. Schwartz (D,C)
John A. Sarcone, III (R)
Karen A. Ostberg (R)
Susan M. Sullivan-Bisceglia (R)
John Ciampoli (R)
COUNTY CLERK
Kenya Gadsden (D,W)
Bradford Kendall* (R,C)
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Anthony Parisi (D,W)
Matthew A. Weishaupt (R,C)
COUNTY EXECUTIVE
Tommy Zurhellen (D,W)
Susan J. Serino (R,C)
FAMILY COURT JUDGE
James Rogers (D,W)
Joseph A. Egitto* (R,C)
MEMBER DUTCHESS COUNTY LEGISLATURE DISTRICT 20
Kristofer P. Munn (D,W)
TOWN OF RED HOOK – Town Supervisor
Robert McKeon* (D)
Norman Greig (R)
TOWN OF RED HOOK – Town Board Member
Jacob Testa* (D)
Bill Hamel* (D)
Anthony Formisano (R)
Gary Kowalski (R)
TOWN OF RED HOOK – Town Justice
Lisa Loughran (D,R)
Tom Mansfield*(D,W)
TOWN OF RED HOOK – Superintendent of Highways
Theresa Burke* (R,C)
*denotes incumbent
C - Conservative Party
D - Democratic Party
G - Green Party
I - Independence Party
R - Republican Party
SAM - Serve America Movement
W - Working Families
This section shows the candidates on the ballot for students registered locally. If you’re registered elsewhere, use this tool from Ballotpedia to find your sample ballot.
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Proposals
Proposal Number One, An Amendment
The proposed amendment to Article 8, section 4 of the Constitution removes the special constitutional debt limitation now placed on small city school districts, so they will be treated the same as all other school districts. Shall the proposed amendment be approved?
Proposal Number Two, An Amendment
The proposed amendment to Article 8, section 5 of the Constitution extends for ten years the authority of counties, cities, towns, and villages to remove from their constitutional debt limits debt for the construction of sewage facilities. Shall the proposed amendment be approved?
For more information about the proposals, click here
To see the entire sample ballot, click here
The Red Hook Daily Catch Election 2023 page (Daily Catch content is free to subscribers)
Republican party candidates all in one place
Democratic party candidates all in one place
Bard College Secures Fully Functioning On-Campus Polling Site
After a fight that had been going on for nearly a quarter century, the Dutchess County Board of Elections finally relented and Bard College had a fully functional campus polling site for the 2022 general election, and hopefully beyond. Election Commissioner Hannah Black informed Bard officials that the polling site at Bard’s Bertelsmann Campus Center would be fully staffed and have the requisite number of polling machines; previously, the site had been in violation of election regulations and a court ordered settlement. The decision occurred after Bard had filed a complaint following years of litigation to secure an on-campus polling location and ensure equal access to the ballot.
Election@Bard Student Leadership
Lead Campus Initiatives Intern
Co-Lead Intern, Coalition Initiatives
Co-Lead Intern, Coalition Initiatives
Intern, Coalition Initiatives
Fiona Flynn is a junior at Bard College, majoring in Written Arts and French. Voter literacy and civic engagement have always been very important to Fiona, and she hopes to encourage more students to become engaged with local politics as well as national. Working with Election@Bard, she hopes to educate herself on local policy along with her student peers, creating a more involved and active community of voters.
Intern, Coalition Initiatives
Emily “Lee” Ta is a second-year student pursuing a double degree in Music composition and History at Bard. They are of the philosophy that the study of history is not exclusively concerned with the past, but in fact perpetually relevant to the modern day, especially in the realm of politics. Their work at Election@Bard is driven by the belief that young people’s voices are the voice of not only the future, but also the present, and that voting is the most essential way to make them heard.
Intern, Coalition Initiatives
Vera Topcik is a third-year student majoring in Physics. Her interest in political activism was motivated by her first experience in political outreach, which was a phone banking event that encouraged people to vote and helped voters find their polling locations. From this experience, Vera learned that she is passionate about making personal connections with potential voters. She is excited to support Election@Bard’s mission of encouraging students to exercise their right to vote.