NY Dems’ latest bid to snub voters, flout the Constitution

Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Democrats are as soon as once more snubbing voters and flouting the state Structure, this time with their new “mail-in-on-demand” voting legislation.

On Wednesday, the gov signed the Democrats’ invoice, which says any registered New Yorker can vote by mail on demand.

Republicans sued immediately, stating that New York’s Structure permits solely two acceptable excuses for not casting your poll in particular person on the polls: being away or in any other case bodily unable to vote in particular person.

So why didn’t the gov and her party-mates got down to amend the state Structure first?

Oh, proper: They did, placing a proposal to take action on the poll again in 2021 — which the general public nixed solidly, 55%-45%.

New Yorkers clearly stand behind the constitutional requirement to point out as much as vote, in the event you’re capable of.

And with good cause: Mail-in voting is extra susceptible to fraud, for starters.

Plus, anybody who actually cares about their authorities and sees voting as a sacred proper shouldn’t thoughts touring a number of blocks to solid their vote at a polling place.

So the Legislature’s Democratic supermajorities, and Hochul, determined: To hell with voters. To hell with the Structure. Possibly the state courts will allow us to get away with it.

Moderately than attempt to persuade New Yorkers to alter their minds, they merely rammed via this new “state legislation.”

This echoes their conceitedness in ramming via gerrymandered voting districts to disenfranchise voters of each events — an effort they’re nonetheless pursuing regardless of court docket defeats.

In 2014, voters handed a constitutional modification strictly prohibiting gerrymandering — and reaffirmed their will by rejecting one other poll proposal to loosen the principles in 2021.

Irrespective of. Dems gerrymandered anyway final 12 months, producing maps aimed toward shrinking the GOP’s New York Home seats to only 4, of 26.

Republicans sued and received at trial; Dems’ enchantment failed within the state’s prime court docket, the Court docket of Appeals: A court-appointed particular grasp drew up truthful maps, resulting in 11 GOP seats.

However Dems haven’t given up: Progressives have since tried to pack the highest court docket with extra biddable jurists and to get it to OK new gerrymanders beginning in 2024.

Democrats hold thundering that democracy is underneath risk, however in New York (at the very least), they’re those threatening it.