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Two charter commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead

Two commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead.

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Two charter commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead

Two commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead.

Two charter commissions are fighting over your November ballot, and one of them is technically dead
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New York City currently has two separate commissions each claiming the power to rewrite the city’s constitution and put questions on your November ballot. One of them was created by a mayor on his way out the door, voided by a line buried in the state budget, and is still holding hearings anyway. The fight over which one counts will help decide something that touches every voter in the city: whether you can cast a primary ballot for a party you are not registered with.

Here is how the city ended up with dueling panels. On December 31, 2025, his last day in office, former Mayor Eric Adams appointed a 15-member Charter Revision Commission , the…

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