An appeals court has dismissed a Republican-led legal challenge that sought to declare New York’s Early Mail Voter Act, which expands absentee voting, as unconstitutional.
A panel of judges with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York issued an order on March 7, granting a motion to dismiss an appeal that was lodged by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who sought to overturn a Feb. 5 lower court decision that upheld the Early Mail Voter Act as constitutional.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed the New York Early Mail Voter Act in September, expanding the state’s absentee voting laws to allow all voters to cast their ballots by mail during the early voting period….
