Statement From Ed Cox on Court of Appeals Decision

ALBANY - NYGOP Chair Ed Cox released the following statement:

“The Court of Appeals decision today to uphold the legislature’s mail-in early voting scheme is an affront to every New Yorker.

“In 2021, voters soundly rejected a constitutional amendment to permit no-excuse absentee voting. Yet despite that decision, Gov. Hochul and the legislature decided to enact the functional equivalent of no-excuse absentee voting when they adopted mail-in early voting in 2023. The Court decided that a 1966 amendment to the state Constitution permitted the legislature to enact this law. For 58 years, this authority was hiding in plain sight, they say. This holding is clearly contrary to what generations of New York legislators, attorneys and judges had decided and what the people said in 2021 when they rejected the amendment.

“This ruling is another indication of what one-party rule means for New York State. The legislature and governor act contrary to law and our highest court turns a blind eye.”