Kayla Harris is reporting for the Times Union Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo September 26, signed legislation extending New York's deadline for voters to change their party registration ahead of the 2020 primary elections. The new law eliminates the previously scheduled Oct. 11 deadline, giving voters until Feb. 14 to change parties and still vote in the primary elections in April and June. The bill, passed by the state Legislature in June, sat on Cuomo's desk unsigned for months, causing the campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to urge the Democratic National Committee to demand that Cuomo sign the bill into law. Progressives have rallied for years for New York to change its strict deadline. Party leaders previously defended the state's very early registration deadlines as a defense against the practice of party-raiding, in which members of a rival party change their affiliation to undercut the opposing party's candidate selection. Read the full story in the Times Union.