By Allen Roth and John McLaughlin
New York voters spoke out loudly and clearly last November for honest elections, defeating three ballot measures that sought to change the state Constitution to undermine ballot security. But Gov. Kathy Hochul and others are looking to corrupt our voting rules anyway.
On Election Day, the public decisively defeated Propositions 1, 3 and 4.
- Prop 1 would’ve effectively ended the bipartisan redistricting commission that voters passed by referendum in 2017, and also given special protection to count illegal immigrants in redistricting. It lost 56 percent to 44 percent.
- Prop 3, to allow same-day voter registration in a state that doesn’t require ID to vote, lost 58-42.
- Prop 4, to legalize no-excuse absentee ballots, and so enable ballot harvesting, went down by 56-44.
These decisive victories for honest elections won support across all parties, ideologies, and areas of the state. Yet Hochul has chosen to ignore the voters’ will. The day before Thanksgiving, she signed a law to gut the work of the bipartisan, voter-approved redistricting commission and let simple majorities of the Democratic-controlled Legislature approve new redistricting lines.
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