Appeals Court Rejects GOP Challenge to New York’s No-Excuse Absentee Ballot Law

A New York appeals court has dismissed a GOP-led legal challenge to the state’s absentee ballot law that lets all voters cast mail ballots with no conditions.

Empty envelopes of opened vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary are stacked on a table at King County Elections in Renton, Wash., on March 10, 2020. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images

An appeals court has dismissed a Republican-led legal challenge that sought to declare New York’s Early Mail Voter Act, which expands absentee voting, as unconstitutional.

A panel of judges with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York issued an order on March 7, granting a motion to dismiss an appeal that was lodged by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who sought to overturn a Feb. 5 lower court decision that upheld the Early Mail Voter Act as constitutional.