According to this story, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, will try to persuade the 2017 session of the legislature to ease the deadline for parties to switch parties. Current law forces voters who are registered in one party, but who want to vote in the primary of another party, to change more than six months before the primary. Schneiderman wants to ease the deadline to 25 days before the primary (if the change is submitted by postal mail) and 10 days before the primary, for individuals who appear in person at the voter registration office.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Good idea.. I remember in Illinois where you could change on election day. 6 months is a crazy requirement.
While New York would be better to switch to Top 2 so you don’t have to register with a party, they could change the procedure for creating a new party to require it to actually have registrants before it got on the ballot. Instead of nominations by “independent bodies” simply make them petitions that change registration to a new political body.
Instead of signing a petition for the Con-Fusion Dog Whistle and Identify Grievance Reform Party independent body a voter would change their registration to the CFDWAIGRP by signing the petition.
Sorry Jim, but top 2 is the most retarded election system ever conceived by any human being ever in existence.
It seems to me that it should be up to the parties themselves as to when each will allow switches, and, for that matter, whether to hold an open or closed primary.
Walt, I would agree if it was the parties themselves that paid for the primaries, but the tax payer foots the bill, so in my opinion anyone of any party should be able to vote in any primary. If the parties don’t like it, they can refuse tax payer money.
I like the idea of a single open primary, where the top candidate of each party gets their party’s nomination, essentially what they do in Alaska.
NO primaries.
ONE election DAY.
EQUAL nominating petitions – to get SERIOUS candidates
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
maybe William Rehnquist was corect after all. Keep the long enrollment lockbox but allow non affiliated to vote in the primary using any of the party ballots as advisory voting only unless the indvidual party adopts the advisory vote towards the individual party ballot totals
Rosario v. Rockefeller
410 U.S. 752 (1973)
STEWART, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and WHITE, BLACKMUN, and REHNQUIST, JJ., joined. POWELL, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which DOUGLAS, BRENNAN, and MARSHALL, JJ., joined, post, p. 410 U. S. 763.
several members of the non ballot qualified LPNY want to keep the anti-raiding extended enrollment lock-box