The court said it would would be 'extremely disruptive' to change the rules with absentee voting already underway.
A New York appeals court on Tuesday upheld a new state law allowing absentee ballots to be reviewed before Election Day.A New York appeals court on Tuesday upheld a new state law allowing absentee ballots to be reviewed before Election Day, saying it would would be "extremely disruptive" to change the rules with absentee voting already underway.
"In our view, granting petitioners the requested relief during an ongoing election would be extremely disruptive and profoundly destabilizing and prejudicial to candidates, voters and the State and local Boards of Elections," read a decision from the court, which had heard arguments in the case earlier Tuesday.About 552,000 absentee ballots have been sent out with more than 188,000 returned so far, according to the state Board of Elections.
Processing of absentee ballots as they come in - as opposed to waiting until election night - was adopted to reduce sometimes weekslong delays for official results. At arguments earlier Tuesday, lawyers for the Republican plaintiffs told the five-judge panel that Freestone's ruling was correct and that the new law removes a crucial later of judicial review.
"Where have you been?" Justice John Egan asked Ciampoli. "Here we are a week before the election. There's a whole lot of absentee ballots that have been cast by now."
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