


“Siri, who is this woman?”
A befuddled straphanger appeared to have no clue who New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was as she rode the subway — and had to google who she was, photos show.
Hochul made a trip to the Big Apple from Albany to sign a series of voting rights bills at New York Law School in Manhattan on Wednesday, and hopped on the subway in her travels at the Brooklyn Bridge station.
As the governor waved to New Yorkers on the train, a photo shows a perplexed rider with an open Google search showing Hochul’s face on her phone.
However, at least one city commuter seemed to recognize the governor as she engaged with others.
The sweeping legislative package Hochul signed on Wednesday includes a number of measures intended “to modernize and improve every step of the [voting] process,” Hochul said.
The bills include a law that allows every New York resident to vote early by mail, as well as establishing same-day registration for voters and expanding “registration, pre-registration, and voter education programs in schools so when everybody’s 18, they are primed and ready to go,” Hochul said.
Additionally, state prisons will be required to provide voter registration information to inmates as soon as they are released, she said.
The new laws expand on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act that Hochul signed into law last year, which targeted voter suppression.