Deja vu? 2 summer primaries could be in store for NYC voters.
There’s a chance voters could experience two primaries in New York for the second year in a row if a judge orders a change to the city’s newly drawn legislative lines this week.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ericka Edwards is expected to rule soon in a dispute over the Council district lines certified last fall after the decennial redistricting process. The suit was filed on behalf of a group of Indo-Caribbean and South Asian voters in Queens' Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park neighborhoods, who say the current lines dilute their political power and violate the legal requirements to protect racial and language minority communities set forth in the City Charter.
The city disputes those claims and argues that the challenge to current maps was filed too long after the maps were certified and too close to the start of election activity.
If Edwards rules for the plaintiffs, the New York City Districting Commission could be ordered to revise the Council district maps, a process city officials say would take two months. Additionally, in court papers submitted last week, the New York City Board of Elections said any revisions to the current map would require changes to election districts — the smallest units for organizing voters — and that those changes could have a ripple effect beyond the neighborhoods that are the focus of the lawsuit.
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