A watchdog group on election law with success opposing mail-in voting provisions has joined two key congressional Republicans from New York in a case before the state’s highest court.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a friend of the court brief Tuesday in the New York Court of Appeals supporting Reps. Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference, and Rep. Claudia Tenney, co-chair of the Election Integrity Caucus, in challenging New York’s universal mail-in voting law.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation previously led litigation that stopped expansion of mail-in voting in President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware.
Stefanik and Tenney, the plaintiffs in New York, contend that universal vote-by-mail systems, in which ballots are mailed to all voters, are unconstitutional. In a 2021 referendum, the state’s voters agreed, rejecting a…
