Republicans struggled to justify to judges on New York’s highest court Tuesday that a state law permitting the counting of questionable mail-in ballots is unconstitutional because it gives the upper hand to one political party.
The case centers on Republicans’ challenge to a portion of the state’s election law that allows local election boards to consider an absentee or mail-in ballot valid and count the vote, even when there is a split between Democratic and Republican representatives about whether the ballot envelope is valid.
Republicans say the provision, which was included among a slate of election law changes enacted in ...
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