Courthouse News Service: New York Republicans File Federal Challenge to State’s Even-Year Election Law

October 30, 2025 — Courthouse News

A 28-page complaint filed Oct. 30, 2025, in Brooklyn federal court (E.D.N.Y.) challenges New York’s 2023 Even Year Election Law, which consolidates certain local races into even-numbered years; Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors represents the New York Republican State Committee, three counties, eight towns, and more than a dozen officials and candidates. Plaintiffs allege the statute imposes severe burdens on local candidates’ core political speech in violation of the First Amendment and violates the Fourteenth Amendment, and they seek an order permitting localities to opt out; they also contend longer ballots will produce low-information voting and raise campaign costs. The filing follows New York’s high court recently upholding the law as a neutral change and allowing implementation; the measure excludes some city elections and county offices, and New York City is unaffected.

“Cloaked in the rhetoric of increased ‘voter turnout,’ the law is a calculated attempt to centralize top-of-the-ticket political power at the expense of local democracy.” — Courthouse News

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