Nick Reisman is reporting for State of Politics objections are starting to surface to the idea of directly mailing each of New York's 11.7 million registered voters a ballot for the June 23 primary elections. Elections commissioners lack the infrastructure or experience with such an undertaking, state Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy said. "They don't believe there's any way, especially in the larger counties, that the numbers of mailing the ballots to every single register voter could ever be achieved," he said. The state GOP chief is also concerned about first-time voters. "They may not even be aware of the candidates or the choices on the ballot...," he said. Susan Lerner, with the political watchdog group Common Cause, is also unconvinced that voting by mail is a good idea. She says local elections officials do not have the technology in place to make it work. "The truth of the matter is New York is simply not prepared to make the leap to an all vote by mail system without disenfranchising  tens, if not hundreds of thousands of New York voters," Lerner said. Instead, she believes New York should make it easier for voters to apply for absentee ballot and extend the weeks of early voting. Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this month made it easier for voters to apply for and receive an absentee ballot for the upcoming primary. Absentee ballots account for only 2 percent of the state's overall vote total every election. Read the full story at nystateofpolitics [dot] com.