On Friday, June 28, 2024, the Delaware Supreme Court overturned the Superior Court’s earlier ruling that had deemed Delaware’s early voting and permanent absentee laws unconstitutional.
Our caucus’s position has been consistent, that our primary concern with those two laws was whether or not they were legal under the Delaware Constitution. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s ruling did not address this question, but rather focused on if the plaintiffs had proper standing.
To be clear, Senate Republicans support the concept of early voting. House Republican Whip Lyndon Yearick, Senate Republican Leader Gerald Hocker, and others are prime sponsors of House Bill 320, a Republican-led effort which would insert clarifying early voting language into the Delaware Constitution. Doing so would remove any ambiguity in the law and provide Delawareans extra flexibility when casting their ballots.