NY Dems’ latest bid to snub voters, flout the Constitution — and lock in power

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anyone who truly cares about their government and sees voting as a sacred right shouldn’t mind traveling a few blocks to cast their vote at a polling place.

So the Legislature’s Democratic supermajorities, and Hochul, decided:

To hell with voters. To hell with the Constitution. Maybe the state courts will let us get away with it. this new “state law.” This echoes their arrogance in ramming through gerrymandered voting districts to disenfranchise voters of both parties — an effort they’re still pursuing despite court defeats.

In 2014, voters passed a constitutional amendment strictly prohibiting gerrymandering — and reaffirmed their will by rejecting last year, producing maps aimed at shrinking the GOP’s New York House seats to just four, of 26. Republicans sued and won at trial; Dems’ appeal failed in the state’s top court, the Court of Appeals: A court-appointed special master drew up But Dems haven’t given up: Progressives have since tried to pack the top court with more biddable jurists and to get it to OK new gerrymanders starting in 2024.

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