SCOTUS delivers a HUGE ruling,Justices Rule Voting By Mail Over Pandemic Fears Violates Constitution

Supreme Court delivers a HUGE ruling,Justices Rule Voting By Mail Over Pandemic Fears Violates Constitution
A New York judge has dealt a major blow to Democratic advocates of widespread mail-in voting.

In a Monday ruling, Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone, a Republican, said that voting by mail over the fear of COVID-19 violates the state’s constitution. She wrote that the Democrat-controlled New York 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.'”

Her 28-page ruling ordered local election boards to cease counting absentee ballots that they have already received and to “preserve” them until after the Nov. 8 midterm election date or until another lawsuit filed by state Republicans is resolved. Notably, her ruling does not invalidate ballots that local boards have already received.