ALBANY – Nassau County lacks standing to challenge the constitutionality of the state law that required the replacement of mechanical, levered voting machines with computerized optical scanning devices, an upstate appeals court has decided.
Since the county is legally a creature of the state under the state Constitution, it and all other local government entities “lack capacity to attack actions by the State and the Legislature” except under four narrow exceptions, none of which apply to the computerized voting machine question, the Appellate Division, Third Department panel said in a 4-0 ruling in Matter of County of Nassau v. State of New York, 513425, 513446 and 513649.
