Republican election officials around New York refused to process absentee ballots amid a court challenge earlier this week. But they began opening and scanning the ballots Friday after a warning from the state attorney general.
Republicans cited guidance from the State Board of Election that the judge didn’t explicitly direct counties to start counting ballots again and that to open the ballots would effectively give the state the result they were seeking on appeal before a decision was made.
“I don’t know this particular judge but maybe he’s the one being partisan,” said Haight. “If being correct on a legal issue is Republican, I’ll be Republican all day long.”
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