Tight races in New York state could — with control of the House on a razor’s edge — decide who wields the Speaker’s gavel in 2025. So is the Empire State’s highest court again going to give the Democrats a leg-up on Election Day, as New York Republicans contend, by okaying relaxed absentee ballot-counting procedures? That’s the question in the pending case of Amedure v. New York, set to be argued at Albany on October 15.