The legend of the Headless Horseman puts the small village of Sleepy Hollow just north of Manhattan on the map for most Americans. Past its idyllic charm and folklore fame, the village doesn’t normally get much attention. Now, it’s the site of Democrats’ efforts to use the New York Voting Rights Act to force the surrounding area to change the way it conducts its elections — and the reasoning outlined in the lawsuit suggests one of the effort’s goals may be bringing in more illegal aliens.
Sleepy Hollow is one of three incorporated villages that exist inside the town of Mount Pleasant, alongside the village of Pleasantville and a small part of Briarcliff Manor. Each village has its own local government, Mount Pleasant Town Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi explained to The Federalist.
Mount Pleasant also has its own government, including a town board, but the legislative body of Mount Pleasant has no bearing on any of the villages, Fulgenzi said. The town board is Mount Pleasant’s legislative body, and the unincorporated area it governs includes the hamlets of Hawthorne, Thornwood, Valhalla, and Pocantico Hills.
Despite Sleepy Hollow having its own legislative body, Democrats are citing a controversial law to try to change the way the town’s elections work, according to Fulgenzi.
Five Hispanic voters from Sleepy Hollow sued the town of Mount Pleasant in January in hopes of forcing the town to abandon its current at-large voting system. The New York Post reported earlier this month that Democrats are deploying
