On December 6, a New York state trial court held a hearing in Moody v New York State Board of Elections. At the conclusion of the oral argument, the judge ruled for the state. The issue is the very early deadline for a voter to switch parties. People who wanted to vote in the Democratic or Republican presidential primaries of April 2016 had to have been registered into that party by October 2015. No other state has a similar deadline. See this story.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
ALL 50 States have ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander regimes — ALL tyrants ALL the time —
i.e. communist Donkey and fascist Elephant regimes.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Remember Pearl Harbor 75 years ago.
This is one tyrannical rule that I support unequivocally and wholeheartedly. As someone who has been in 3rd Party Politics for 30 years and never in his life pulled a lever for a Dominant Party Candidate for President ever in his life I can say I have had it up to my eyeballs with people Gaming the System by reregistering to change their Party Affiliation to vote for a candidate of another party and then reregistering back 6 weeks later.
Today Attorney General Schneiderman issued a report of this and other problems.
“A.G. Schneiderman Releases Comprehensive Report Examining Unprecedented Number Of Voter Complaints During April Presidential Primary And Proposes New Statewide Voting Protections And Reforms”
http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-releases-comprehensive-report-examining-unprecedented-number-voter
Bob: But many people won’t enroll third party if they can’t participate in primaries. How about we have open primaries, but only allow a party change once a year, as we do now?
Rich NO ! People gaming the system has to stop ! I would like to see Voter Registration and Party Declaration busted into two separate acts and two separate forms. Party affiliation can be change once every 4 years in a 90 window that starts the day after an Election Day. Only party voter drives are permitted to file Party Declaration Forms at any time. People who do change attempting to qualify a new Party must understand they will stay in that party for the duration of the term. To compensate for that the qualification requirements to qualify a party and petition signatures for Presidential/Governor should be on the order of 1 per 1000 voters for Party Declarations and 1 per 10,000 voters for petition signatures. NO PAID Signature Gathers.
As to Open Primaries NO on that also. We have seen that Open Primaries is a Gateway for Top 2 which also has to be abolished.