City moves to let voters e-register

NEW YORKERS will soon be able to register to vote online after the City Council passed legislation to allow it Thursday.

The city Campaign Finance Board will set up a website and create an app to allow would-be voters to register.

“It seems like every election in New York City, it’s a new low for voter turnout,” said Councilman Ben Kallos (D-Manhattan), noting the dismal turnout in last week’s mayoral election. ALBANY — Lame-duck Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino abandoned his legal battle to keep the Indian Point nuclear power plant open.

Astorino’s lawyers on Thursday quietly filed paperwork to discontinue two lawsuits he filed this spring seeking to force the state to conduct a full environmental review of Gov. Cuomo’s plan to close the plant.

“While the county executive still fully believes in the suit’s merits, he felt it was inappropriate

The city will also make its program available to other apps, who could offer up voter registration themselves.

The legislation, which Mayor de Blasio plans to sign, will create an indirect system to get around issues at the Board of Elections, where commissioners have not signed off on online registration. Instead, the Campaign Finance Board will let people register online, then print out paper forms for them and deliver them to the elections board. for him to continue with it given the change of administrations,” said Astorino spokesman Gerald McKinstry.

Astorino lost his bid for reelection to Democratic state Sen. George Latimer, who had been critical of the suits.

Under the agreement announced by Cuomo and plant owner Entergy in January, the first of the two Indian Point reactors would be shut down by April 2020.