U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Dearie will hear oral arguments in Credico v New York State Board of Elections, cv10-4555 (southern district) on October 19, Tuesday, at 3 p.m. This is the case that challenges a New York state law that allows a candidate nominated by two qualified parties to be listed on the ballot twice, and also allows a candidate nominated by one qualified party and one unqualified party to also be listed on the ballot twice, yet won’t list a candidate twice who has been nominated by two unqualified parties.
Just found this in NY 2010 Election Laws:
§ 7–104 5(e) If any person is nominated for any office only by more than one independent bodies1, his name shall appear but once upon the machine in one such row or column to be designated by the candidate in a writing filed with the officer or board charged with the duty of providing ballots, or if the candidate shall fail to so designate, in the place designated by the officer or board charged with the duty of providing ballots, and in connection with his name there shall appear the name and emblem of each independent body nominating him, but, where the capacity of the machine will permit, the name of such
person shall not appear or be placed in a column or on a
horizontal line with the names of persons nominated by a party for other offices.
§ 7–104 6. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision five of this section, the name of a person who is nominated for the office of governor, or state senator, or member of assembly, shall appear on the ballot labels of the machine as many times as there are parties or independent bodies nominating him, and there shall be a separate voting and registering device at each place in which such name shall appear.
So because he is running for U.S. Senate he did not meet the requirement for #6 to take affect.
Right, the lawsuit argues that that law is unconstitutional.
Are the NY State legislature party hack MORONS THE EVIL INSANE worst in the U.S.A. ???
How did that happen — going back even to the first gerrymander election in the NY colony regime in the 1600s ???
great issue(s) in this case. just received (NYS) an absentee ballot in the mail today — Ballot line total font (size) must be equal (summation of print fonts of the fusion lines based on the last governor outcome (with the independent nominating lines given a full sized font — this will teach the fusion-ites what equal protection means.
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