New York Judge Rules on ‘Unconstitutional’ Voting by Mail

The 2022 midterms are fast approaching, which means democrats have amped up their usual tactics of lying and fear-mongering.

In New York, liberals were planning to beat a dead horse with the continued use of COVID-19 as a scare tactic for voters.

A republican judge just put a large kink in that plan.

On Friday, Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone ruled that allowing New Yorkers to vote by mail on the grounds of their fears of COVID-19 is unconstitutional. 

In her ruling, Justice Freestone said that the dem-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.’”

This could spell bad news for current Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is fast losing ground to her Republican challenger, Lee Zeldin.

New York judge rules voting by mail due to COVID fears is unconstitutional https://t.co/G86KJFdyuf

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 23, 2022

Fox News reports on the judge’s ruling:

A judge in New York ruled that voting by mail over fears of the coronavirus is unconstitutional.

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,'” Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone, a Republican, wrote in her ruling Friday.

The 28-page ruling ordered local election boards to stop counting absentee ballots they’ve already received and to “preserve” them until after Election Day on Nov. 8 or after the resolution of a lawsuit filed by Republicans in the state. The ruling does not invalidate ballots that have already been mailed.

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State Republicans cheering the ruling of an upstate judge who says allowing New Yorkers to vote by mail due to fear of COVID-19 is unconstitutional.#77WABCRadio#BreakingnewsJudgerulesagainstvotebymail

— TalkRadio 77 WABC (@77WABCradio) October 22, 2022

'Mail-in Ballot Scam Ruled Unconstitutional in New York…'
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— Christine E (@ChristineMarieB) October 24, 2022

Judge rules letting NYers vote by mail due to fear of COVID unconstitutional https://t.co/Y7d6cZsu08 pic.twitter.com/LS9aowCqT3

— New York Post (@nypost) October 24, 2022

Here are more details from the New York Post:

In her ruling, Freestone said that 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.’”

Rejecting arguments made by a lawyer for the state Board of Elections at a hearing earlier this month, Freestone said that “there are uncounted reasons for this Court to second-guess the wisdom of the Legislature.”

The judge stopped short of invalidating absentee ballots that have already been cast.
But her decision could lead to the overturning of a state law that blocks people from changing their mail-in votes by showing up to cast in-person ballots on Election Day.

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That scenario could hurt Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, who’s been losing ground to Republican challenger Lee Zeldin in recent polls.

A Ruling by Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone ordered that the continued use of COVID excuse for using absentee ballots in elections is not constitutional. Democrats in the state are appealing the ruling.  They know that without cheating, they have no chance. pic.twitter.com/aZs8flsouN

— Lisa Marie (@Lisamarie1577) October 24, 2022

This ruling comes right as another wave of media-induced COVID fear mongering has arrived:

#Democrats continue to fear-monger using #COVID as their reason to push mail-in voting because it's easier to cheat that way. Ballot harvesting here we come! #VoteRed as if your life depends on it! #DemocratsDividingAndDestroyingAmerica

— Sue Cook-@aquaglass (@aquaglass) October 23, 2022

Why is @nytimes still pushing this covid fear? Is anyone still living like this? https://t.co/5NZe6cz6LD

— Jenny George (@proudkidanddog1) October 16, 2022

Trusted friends told me this when COVID hit, FEAR is one of the most powerful ways to control people.

Be very wary of ANY POLITICIANS who are willing to fear monger in hopes of getting votes!

If the FEAR OF THEIR OPPOSITION is what they are running on, WTF is that?

— Jeff Fenton (@TNInjustice) October 23, 2022