A comprehensive study of the cost of implementing New Jersey’s early voting law shows taxpayers will have to pony up $77 million this year alone just to pay for new voting machines and other essential hardware.
That is almost four times the amount set aside in this year’s budget to finance the landmark law, and it does not include millions more needed for the hiring and training of poll workers, facility upgrades and a range of other ongoing expenses.
“We’re very disappointed that the governor’s budget does not provide anywhere near enough money,” said John Donaddio, executive director of the New Jersey Association of Counties, which carried out the study and based its findings on data from all 21 counties. “We have no indication where the rest will come from.”
Over 8,000 New Yorkers across the state who voted by mail in last fall’s election were able to save their ballots from being thrown out, according to the New York State Board of Elections, thanks to a new ‘ballot curing’ law that gave them a chance to fix certain technical defects on their ballot envelope.
While curable rejects accounted for only a fraction of the total number of invalidated absentee ballots, overall far fewer mail-in votes were thrown out in the 2020 general election compared to the June primaries and to previous general elections. According to a Gotham Gazette analysis of state election data, the rate of absentee ballot rejections in New York fell by roughly two-thirds from 23% to the 2020 general election.
The village acknowledges that violations pre-dating the purchase of the property by the yeshiva existed, and it is clear from the record that the village took no enforcement actions until the yeshiva purchased the properties to continue using them as a school, the yeshiva states in legal papers filed Friday in state Supreme Court at the Rockland Courthouse in New City.
The yeshiva s legal action states the village must explain to the court how the selective enforcement of its zoning ordinance survives scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause.
The response also argues court is not the venue to provide advisory opinions, especially on speculations where no controversy exists.
Brazilian lawyer, 21, will become the youngest admitted to the New York State Bar in decades after he graduated from law school in Brazil and won a case in their Supreme Court while just a TEEN
Mateus Costa-Ribeiro will become the youngest person in recent decades to be admitted as a member of the New York state bar next Thursday
Costa-Ribeiro, who grew up in Brasilia, graduated from Brazil s law school at 18 before he argued a case before the country s highest court
He then got accepted into Harvard Law School s one-year master of laws program
When he was 19, Costa-Ribeiro petitioned the New York State Court of Appeals and was granted a waiver to take the bar exam - which he passed