NYCLU attorneys wrote that Republicans are trying to “wreak havoc by changing the voting rules in the middle of an ongoing election based on fanciful theories of state constitutional law and wild allegations of potential fraud.”
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Democrats and voting-rights activists in New York are trying to convince a Republican judge that a GOP-backed lawsuit seeking to upend the state’s absentee ballot laws is an attempt to sow doubt about the voting process in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
“We've used this canvassing procedure in two primary elections and seven special elections without the sky falling and terrible things happening,” Brian Quail, an attorney for the Democratic faction of the state Board of Elections, said during the hearing. “Just lots of votes actually getting counted, cast by valid voters in New York.
"They're trying to disenfranchise a lot of New York voters,” said Perry Grossman, a supervising attorney for the NYCLU, which is leading an attempt to intervene in the court case with assistance from Common Cause/New York, a good-government organization.As of Tuesday, more than 165,000 absentee ballots were sent to voters who requested them ahead of the general election, according to the state Board of Elections. Of those, more than 2,000 had already been returned.
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