In a decision handed down today, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe is
once again disappointed in how New York is handling its elections
process when it comes to overseas and military voters.

…Sharpe’s ruling last month required the state Board of Elections to
submit an elections calendar. However, the agency submitted two—one from
the Democratic officials and one from Republicans.

“New York has once again demonstrated its intransigent refusal
to comply with a federal mandate protecting the federal voting rights of
those serving in the military overseas and those otherwise living on
foreign soil,” Sharpe wrote in today’s decision.

The colorful Sharpe noted in his ruling that the submissions “remind
the court of Strother Martin’s (Captain, Florida Road Prison 36)
admonition to Paul Newman (Prisoner Luke): “What we’ve got here is a
failure to communicate.” The dialogue is from the 1967 movie “Cool Hand
Luke.”

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