ALBANY, N.Y. — Renewing its push to offer service statewide, ride-sharing company Uber released a new survey Thursday showing widespread support for its services across New York.

The poll, administered by Summit Strategy Group of St. Louis, sampled mostly white, college-educated suburbanites outside New York City. Results showed that four of five New Yorkers support well-regulated legal ride-sharing, and believe the business would offer greater travel options for state residents. The poll's margin of error is 3.5 percent.

"We're going to whatever it takes to make sure that those people's voices are heard throughout the state," said Uber General Manager Josh Mohrer, in an interview with Capital Tonight on Time Warner Cable News.

Already, Uber has recommitted to a campaign pressuring lawmakers to pass ride-sharing legislation, using the hashtag #NYneedsUber across social media platforms. The company is also running a petition on its website; as of early Thursday evening, it had surpassed 102,000 digital signatures.

"It's a simple question, and the answer is yes," said state assemblyman Phil Steck (D-Colonie) on Thursday. Steck is a member of the assembly's insurance committee, and voted against a bill to legalize ride-sharing in the spring.

"The insurance issues that prevent those companies from operating upstate have not yet been resolved," Steck explained. "I would prefer to see one constant insurance: The minute you turn your app on to drive for Uber, you have one level of insurance, and that's constant until you turn it off."

Steck says previous legislation would have required Uber to provide different levels of insurance, based on whether the driver was idling, in transit to a pick-up, or transporting customers. He noted that every Republican member of the insurance committee had similarly voted against the prior bill, though he does expect to see an updated version in 2017.

Uber, meanwhile, says it would have easily met the demands of the previous bill. The company's standard insurance covers drivers for up to $1 million in liability when they are traveling between jobs or transporting customers. When idling during a work period, Uber drivers are still covered for up to $100,000.

"We're talking about 20 times the coverage in an Uber ride than in a New York City taxi ride," says Mohrer, who laid responsibility on lobbyists from the taxi industry and the trial lawyers' association.

Mohrer says taxi unions are worried about competition; trial lawyers, he says, would lose money on Uber because it decreases drivers' need to drive drunk and incur DWI charges.

On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) weighed in on the ride-sharing controversy, placing the responsibility on the legislature.

"We need the people of upstate to tell their representatives, 'Don’t come home until you’ve passed ride-sharing,' " Cuomo told reporters.

Some, like Assemblyman John McDonald (D-Cohoes), are calling on the governor to make ride-sharing a part of his 2017-2018 budget proposal.

"As you know, New York State will always have a little bit of a financial interest in this process," McDonald said. "And because there's a financial component, it actually belongs in the budget. It's one of those items that I believe if it's a priority, it should be in the budget."

If the governor does place ride-sharing in his budget, it likely could not be passed before at least the April 1 budget deadline. Phasing in the law could take until the end of 2017.