RiverheadLOCAL: Rothwell Mulling Supervisor Run in ’26

RiverheadLOCAL reports that New York’s Even-Year Election Law, enacted in 2024, is reshaping Riverhead’s local election calendar by realigning town races to even-numbered years to coincide with state and federal contests. The law shortens the town supervisor’s traditional two-year term to one year for 2025 only, requiring another supervisor election in 2026, and reduces the usual four-year council terms in the 2025 and 2027 elections to three years so that all seats sync to even-year cycles in 2028 and 2030. A federal lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of New York by the New York State Republican Committee and several local governments, including Riverhead, challenges the law as unconstitutional and violative of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, while the New York Attorney General’s office seeks dismissal on multiple grounds, including lack of standing and failure to state a claim.

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