Posted on 12/16/2021 8:02:35 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Gov. Kathy Hochul said she’ll make no-questions-asked mail voting a top priority in 2022 – even though voters rejected that proposal just last month.
“I want New York State to be a leader, we have not been a leader in the past. We have made it too hard to vote…I believe that everyone should be able to vote by mail,” she told reporters in Albany Thursday.
“I’ll be working with all my partners to come up with a very bold and ambitious plan to make sure New Yorkers have the right.”
Voters rejected a constitutional amendment on the November election ballot that would have permitted a permanent, universal vote-by-mail option for all registered voters.
Hochul also promised the state would provide financial backing to help local boards of elections with the changes.
“If there’s money required behind it…to the extent that we’ll be asking our boards of elections to do more, or undertake more costs, I believe that the state of New York should have a strong role in that, so that’s being worked out as well,” she said.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation last year ahead of the 2020 presidential election that temporarily allowed all voters in the state to cast an absentee ballot, citing fear of contracting COVID-19 as a legitimate concern.
But the crush of mail-in ballots also overwhelmed the US Postal Service and New York City’s Board of Elections during last year’s June presidential primaries, sparking calls for a return to in-person voting.
State Senate GOP Minority Leader Rob Ortt (R-Lockport) told The Post he opposes Hochul’s plan, as the provision was already shot down – predominately in Upstate counties – in November.
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PATRIOT PING
I have words, but I can’t say them.
Translation: “Communism will come to America via massive voter fraud. And there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.”
Shameless …
This is how you know the people in states like new york and California are majority republican or are swinging that way
Why would the democrats do this if they were confident the people would vote for them?
I can—she is a poltroon, devoid of sanity and common sense. Her goal is to appear doing something against a non-existent
problem. The woman is a fool, but then again she is a Demon Rat....
Didn’t the people just vote this down last election?
Mail-in voting is disastrous to election integrity:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/heed-jimmy-carter-on-the-danger-of-mail-in-voting-11586557667
But it'll happen. Isn't it 8 or 10 states that already have it? Elections are a thing of the past; from here on, we'll only have selections.
Exactly why they want it, of course.
But... but... voting by mail is too hard.
Anything requiring voter action, of any sort, is racist.
Voting should be done by virtue of entrenched political powers divining the will of the public.
(/sarc)
The rats get New York anyway. So nothing lost.
That’s exactly what it means bro. The rat bastards.
There won’t be much push-back from the RNC or state Republicans. They’ll point to Utah, a solid Republican state which has had 100% mail-in voting for years.
There will be no accountability. Audits are expensive and I don’t know of any state, other than Texas, that seriously investigates vote fraud.
How about online voting? Based on blockchain technology to reduce the potential for fraud to near zero.
Of course she does. 🙄
Just like Hitler did!
“even though voters rejected that proposal just last month.”
Democrats oppose democracy.
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