In an effort last year to expand voting access, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a bill moving the state’s local elections, including towns, villages, and counties, to even-numbered years, which an election attorney now claims will “nationalize local elections.”
“It really hasn’t even gotten the attention within New York that I would have thought it would have gotten because, again, this is a monumental change to the electorate,” Joe Burns, a Republican election attorney, told Fox News.
The Democratic-proposed bill, approved in December, aimed to align local races with state and federal elections to “promote a more inclusive democracy,” Hochul said in a statement after signing the legislation. However, the new law could subvert the state’s local elections, causing candidates participating in those local elections to focus on national topics rather than local ones
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