by Kyle Becker at Becker News
A New York judge has delivered a massive blow to states that intend to use the Covid “emergency” as a justification for no-excuse absentee ballots. Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone dismantled the Democratic Party’s attempt to make the practice permanent.
“The Petitioners/Plaintiffs (hereinafter the Petitioners) have raised a serious and legitimate challenge to the constitutionality of an act by the New York State legislature to extend and expand absentee voting under Election S.8-400,” the ruling states. “The Respondents/Defendants (hereinafter Respondents) have advanced numerous arguments in opposition to the Plaintiff’s request for preliminary injunctive relieft and in support of their respective motions to dismiss Plaintiff’s challenge.”
“Here, neither side contests that voting is a paramount and important right,” the judge adds. “While the Court recognizes the import of voting rights it must equally value the manner and sanctity of the constitutionally established electoral process protecting those for whom votes are cast in the State of New York.”
The Democrat-controlled legislature “appears poised to continue the expanded absentee voting provisions of New York State Election Law … in an Orwellian perpetual state of health emergency and cloaked in the veneer of ‘voter enfranchisement,’” she added in her ruling.
As Fox News reported, the 28-page ruling”ordered local election boards to stop…
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