Marly Hornik, the recently ousted co-founder of the anti-voting group Unite4Freedom, posted on X that her other group, NY Citizens Audit (NYCA), sued New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Board of Elections (NYSBE) alleging discrepancies in the state’s voter rolls. They’re asking a federal court to order an audit of the 2022 general election.
Back in 2022, the NYCA spread conspiracy theories of mass voter fraud in the Empire State — going so far as to recruit volunteers to pose as county board of elections staff to go door-to-door and interrogate voters about their voter registration status. The effort led to James issuing Hornik’s group a cease-and-desist order, claiming they violated the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act for intimidating voters through threats.
NYCA’s lawsuit claims they were defamed by James and the NYSBE, who dismissed their activities “as malicious and dangerous ‘misinformation.’” The group is also particularly miffed about James’ cease-and-desist order, which they said was an “unsubstantiated but aggressively publicized criminal investigation” that implied the NYCA “were motivated by racial animus.”