ALBANY — A raft of Republican officials, candidates and committees filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, seeking to undo a New York law that moves local elections to even-numbered years to coincide with presidential and gubernatorial contests.

In doing so, GOP officials are trying to get federal courts to intervene after a similar lawsuit failed in state courts. Just two weeks ago, New York’s top court ruled the law constitutional in a 7-0 decision.

The new lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of New York by the New York State Republican Committee, joined by the Nassau and Suffolk county GOP committees, other counties and individual candidates.

The 28-page lawsuit is filled with old political cartoons, charts and bar graphs that generally center around the idea that local races, cand

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