On June 10, the New York legislature passed S7191/A7761. It says that if two candidates qualify for the primary ballot for district or local office, but one of the candidates is endorsed by the party organization and the other candidate is a new member of the party, the endorsed candidate is the only one who can appear on the primary ballot; the other candidate must be a write-in candidate in that primary. Thanks to Joe Burns for this news.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Even more CONTROL by party hacks over nominations —
A throw BAAACK to Boss Tweed gang stuff – circa 1873.
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NOOO primaries.
ONE election day.
EQUAL nom pets.
PR.
APPV.
TOTYSOP.
Thank you Demo Rep. Your comments are, as always, clear, concise, insightful, and a pleasure to read.
More gibberish from Retarded Demo Rep. Why is it so difficult to type in a complete sentence?
Leave Demo Rep alone.
@Demo Rep… I thought you favored no party nominations at all and then would allow parties (aka party executives and committees) to endorse a specific candidate… this is kind of a step in that direction. It’s a hybrid of your preference and the status quo.
The garbage comment on June 12, 2021 at 12:27 pm is from Will Klatt.
Demo Rep is just a retarded troll who posts just for attention.
The garbage comment on June 12, 2021 at 3:25 pm is from Will Klatt.
The garbage comment at 3:20 pm is from Cyberpig Paul aka Andy. Demo Rep is the bomb. BTW I am not Will. Fact challenged is all wet cause I just peed on him.
The garbage comment at 3:26 pm is also from Paul aka Andy.
Factchallenged / Andy / Paul just swallowed my yellow treat and now is begging for more like a good little d0g.
I thought it was Cody Quirk. Maybe Fact Checker should reveal his real name *cough* Robert K Stock
All the garbage comments on this thread and most others are from me.
My apologies for all the trolling and fapping in these comments.
What qualifies as a “new member of the party”? 6 months, a year, 10 years?
When you’ve been sufficiently hazed they’ll let you know.
The bill would provide that write-in votes for persons not enrolled in a party would not be counted in that party’s primary.
New York permits cross-filing in primaries, but only if the party bosses grant consent. It also permits voters to petition for an Opportunity To Ballot (OTB), where “ballot” is a verb. New York always has a write-in space, but ordinarily does not have a primary for uncontested offices (0 or 1 candidates).
Under current law, there might be no candidates for a party’s nomination. There would be no primary. But if there was an OTB petition, there would be a write-in space, and the party members could nominate anyone.
If this bill becomes law, they could no longer nominate a non-party member by write-in.
The bill may be targeting the Working Families Party. If they could be tricked into nominating a non-entity for governor they might lose ballot access.
Interesting maneuver.
The Democrats in New York have a fixation about the Working Families Party, so much so that they are willing essentially to eliminate all ballot access and fusion for any third parties, just to thwart the Working Families Party.
And yet the WFP is still on the ballot right now, but the new rules came in right after the Libertarians finally retained ballot access for the first time after trying and failing for 50 years. Coincidence?
Eight parties qualified in 2018, so Cuomo got the law changed. If I were NY legislator, I’d be working to change it back.
Eight parties qualified in 2018. Only one of them is
*By far the biggest third party nationwide
*The only one that has been on the ballot for president in every state multiple times, including the last two
*Runs far more candidates nationwide than any other third party
but
*Never retained ballot access in New York before despite trying to for almost 50 years.
Is it a coincidence that the new rules came into play right after they did for the first time? My guess is no.