Legislation approved during the state Legislature’s end-of-session rush moving many elections to even years instead of odd years makes little practical sense.

Democrats pushed the legislation as a way to increase voter turnout and streamlines elections. It’s entirely possible voter turnout will be higher in the even-year elections, particularly when there is a hotly contested race for governor or for the area’s congressional representative.

But for far too many local races having more voters at the polls for local town or village races won’t make much difference because so many of the races are uncontested in the first place. Does it make a difference if 100 people turn out for a town race or 200 people turn out if they have no real choice to make?

Even more frustrating is the litany of elections that aren’t moving because state lawmakers can’t force changes to offices like judges, district attorney, county clerks and county sheriffs. New York City also isn’t included in the law and other cities also don’t have to change their elections. So local boards of election still have to administer off-year elections, there will just be fewer of them to administer. Cost savings will be slight if there are any at all.

It’s telling that one of the first people state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, heard from when the election realignment bill started to move was Luz Torres, county Democratic election commissioner.

“Nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to have these elections moved to even years,” Borrello said. “You know who doesn’t want them to even years? People that execute these elections for us. The first person that I heard from about this bill was the Democrat election commissioner in my county that I live in. And she said, ‘Don’t do this.'”

Gov. Kathy Hochul should heed Torres’ — and others’ — wishes and veto this proposal until it actually streamlines elections and saves money by moving all elections, not just the ones that are largely unconcested in the first place.