Petitioners Yiyi Shwe and Sein Lwin, a married couple in their 70s from Burma who two years ago became U.S. citizens, brought an application register to vote in the 2024, despite missing the deadline to register by four days.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Scott Dunn denied the application but found that they would be able to vote in subsequent elections. Dunn went further to say that he was “moved” by the couple’s determination to exercise their civic duty—expending “considerable time and energy” to cast their ballots in the recent election despite having missed the registration deadline.
