{"id":555905,"date":"2022-10-23T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=555905"},"modified":"2022-10-23T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T00:47:24","slug":"judge-rules-letting-nyers-vote-by-mail-due-to-fear-of-covid-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=555905","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules letting NYers vote by mail due to fear of COVID unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing New Yorkers to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/30\/lawsuit-targets-absentee-voting-in-ny-with-covid-excuse\/\">vote by mail due to fear of COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0is unconstitutional, a state judge said Friday in a ruling that Republican and Conservative Party leaders hailed as a victory for fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=3Xk7H64MG9lRhKdu_PLUS_DR7tA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">28-page ruling<\/a>\u00a0by Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone ordered local boards of election to stop counting the absentee ballots they\u2019ve already received.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, officials have to \u201cpreserve\u201d the ballots until after Election Day or the resolution of a pending suit filed by state and local GOP and Conservative Party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic officials immediately filed a notice saying they would appeal the judge\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/21\/ny-republicans-score-win-in-legal-wager-against-absentee-voting\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/21\/ny-republicans-score-win-in-legal-wager-against-absentee-voting\/?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allowing New Yorkers to\u00a0vote by mail due to fear of COVID-19\u00a0is unconstitutional, a state judge said Friday in a ruling that Republican and Conservative Party leaders hailed as a victory for fair elections. The\u00a028-page ruling\u00a0by Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=555905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}