City Councilman David Greenfield will be introducing a resolution at tomorrow’s stated City Council meeting encouraging the U.S. Congress to pass an amendment to the Help America Vote Act.

The amendment would allow the use of lever machines in federal elections.

The current machines being used are optical scan machines, which have brought an array of complaints from voters.

Some say the accompanying paper ballot is confusing and illegible, others that the machines break down too easily, and still others that they do not provide enough privacy.

Ultimately, Greenfield says voters—not simply his constituents, but voters nationwide—have to deal with too much confusion with the optical scan voting machines, which leaves them at greater risk of being disenfranchised.

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Cops have released a photo of a man they say was the driver in the Saturday night hit-and-run that killed an expecting Williamsburg couple.

Police say Julio Acevedo, 44, was the man behind the wheel of the BMW that killed 21-year-old Nachman and Raizy Glauber.

Raizy Glauber was six months pregnant. The couple was reportedly on their way to the hospital for a checkup with an OB/GYN.

Doctors at Bellevue Hospital were able to deliver the couple’s baby boy post-mortem via C-section, but the child died early Monday morning.

Local Williamsburg City Council members are offering a $5,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of the driver or passenger of the vehicle that killed the Glaubers. The suspects fled the scene on foot after the accident, but cops were able to find the vehicle’s owner using the New York state license plate on the car left behind.

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City Council members David Greenfield and Stephen Levin are offering a $5,000 reward for information in the search for the driver and passenger from the BMW that slammed into a taxi carrying an expecting couple to the hospital late Saturday night.

21-year-old Raizy Glauber, 6 months pregnant, was thrown from the taxi on impact, landing under a tractor trailer yards away.

Neither she nor her husband, Nachman Glauber, also 21, survived the accident. Doctors at Bellevue Hospital were able to deliver her baby boy post-mortem via C-section, but the baby died early Monday morning.

The driver and passenger from the BMW reportedly jumped out of their car and fled on foot. Police were able to track down the registered owner of the car by its license plate, but still have not found the driver or passenger.

Greenfield and Levin hope the reward will entice people to come forward with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the people responsible for the accident.

“We must do everything we can to help the NYPD track down the individuals who caused this incident and then made the cowardly decision to flee the scene instead of trying to help with victims,” Greenfield said.

“I am confident that the NYPD will find the driver and hold him accountable for his disgusting actions,” Levin added.

Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD top line at 1-800-577 TIPS or text TIP577 with the information to CRIMES (274637).

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City Councilman David Greenfield will be introducing legislation on Wednesday that aims to augment the way pedestrian bridges are cleared after a snowstorm.

Greenfield said the bill is motivated by complaints — many from seniors and senior centers — that too often, pedestrian bridges go uncleared after a blizzard, making the already-steep bridges especially treacherous.

“I hear from seniors that they can’t walk by or if they walk, they fall,” Greenfield explained. “These pedestrian paths at train stations have become a blind spot for the Department of Sanitation.”

The bill calls upon the Department of Sanitation to include in their annual report a list of all the pedestrian bridges in the city, as well as a plan for how they will clear all bridges after a snowstorm.

That plan would explicitly outline which agency is responsible for various bridges, as that can vary.

Greenfield said that a major problem in the past has been finger-pointing among city agencies shirking responsibility.

“You get the blame game,” Greenfield said. “Every agency blames a different agency.”

Since many of the pedestrian bridges are located near or connected to train stations, sometimes the onus is meant to be on the LIRR or the MTA, Greenfield said.

The councilman emphasized the importance of knowing who is responsible prior to the snowstorm, not after the fact. That way, he said, when reports come in of snowed-over pedestrian bridges, he and other councilmembers can advocate for their constituents effectively, contacting the proper agency right away.

The Department of Sanitation said they could not respond to questions about their responsibility for pedestrian bridges without being given exact locations, but they did acknowledge that they are responsible for clearing some bridges.

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