In early 2010, about 62% of the state's prisoners hailed from NYC but were housed upstate. But under a law signed by the last Governor, David Paterson, the state's prison population will be counted from were they lived before heading to prison and not were they are housed. This law change will cause vote dilution of certain upstate communities by moving this phantom population from upstate Republican districts to downstate Democratic districts. So upstate Republican State Senators have filed a lawsuit in April and asked an Albany judge to invalidate the law change. This change will shape the Republicans' efforts to retain the State Senate.
In passing the law, New York was one of the first states, along with Maryland and Delaware, to mandate counting prisoners in their home district.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!
Michael H. Drucker
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