New York’s highest court kept the state’s Early Mail Voter Act intact for the Nov. 5 presidential election and beyond, defeating an appeal by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, the state Republican committee and others who had questioned its constitutionality.
Democratic lawmakers advanced the no-excuse, vote-by-mail law in 2023, and it took effect in January—but only after statewide voters overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment concerning an identical measure in 2021.
