This New York Times story explains that the Conservative Party nominee for State Senate, 31st district, in 2010, was deceased before the party nominated him. Dr. Raphael M. Klapper, of the Bronx, died in May 2010. But during June and July, a petition was circulated to qualify him for the Conservative Party primary. He was dutifully nominated without opposition, and his name appeared on the November 2010 ballot. An investigation is underway to determine how this happened. Most of the district is in Manhattan.
The Conservative Party nominated 55 candidates for the 62 New York State Senate seats last year. They included 47 candidates who were also Republican nominees, one candidate who was also the Democratic nominee, and 7 candidates who weren’t the nominee of any other party. Dr. Klapper was one of the party’s nominees who wasn’t also a major party nominee. In the general election he received 1.62% of the vote. By contrast, in 2008, when the Conservative Party also ran someone in this district who wasn’t a major party nominee, the Conservative nominee only received .74%. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
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This is somehow very telling, I feel…
So, it would seem that in New York, Conservatives are better dead than alive.
How many zombie living dead party hack gerrymander MONSTERS from Hell have been elected in the U.S.A. since 4 July 1776 ???
P.R. and App.V.
Let us look what happen in California in 2008 in reguard
to Obama and the dead California Presidential Elector.
One California Representive selected a dead person to the Electorial College. Therefore, one of the list of
Democratic Presidential Electors was in the ground up
in Humbolt County by the November, 2008 election. When
Secretary of State Bowen was informed of dead elector
after the November election, she excepted an amended list of electors from the Chairman’s office of the Califoria Democratic Party with a new list of electors.
This was in violation of the California Election Code, viz., the law was that it was the remaining electors that voted in a replacement at the December, 2008 meeting in Sacramento, CA. That never happened. A person that was not elected by the voters in November,
2008 was seated as an member of the electorial college
in Sacramento without the remaining members present picking a replacement.
Sincerely, Mark Se3idenberg, Vice Chairman,
American Independent Party
3.bonncaruso Says:
January 28th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
This is somehow very telling, I feel…
That is a good one, indeed. With all due respect to the late Dr. Raphael M. Klapper, to call that party “Conservative” would seem to be an understatement.
Libertarians in NYS have been fighting Mike Long and CP-NY since Rocky era (e.g. see 1994 court cases). Now the CP are sending long dead committee members / candidates to gain ballot access without the Committee to Fill Vacancies (on the designating petition) acting to replace the long dead candidate — where was/is the nomination acceptance? NYC-BOE has petition /ballot control rather than NYS-BOE.
Where are the Chicago grave yard votes in the NY mess ???
http://www.elections.state.ny.us/NYSBOE/download/law/acceptance.pdf
is there/ where is his signed acceptance form?
An acceptance is not required to be filed in NY when a candidate is nominated by a party in which s/he is enrolled. Dr. Klapper had been asked by a contact in the party earlier in the year if he would be willing to have his name entered in nomination; Mark Goret was later asked but was not interested in running for the office in 2010. Dr. Klapper then died around the time petitions were being printed, and we didn’t hear from him, so….
Rational regimes require some paperwork from candidates — affidavit of identity (to show some qualifications to hold the office to be checked), acceptance of nomination.
NY is of course rotted to its evil irrational party hack core.
NYS ballot access party county committee — the lack of election district committee person acceptance filing is a big issue. one person can have legions of phantom committee persons and be the head of a constituted county committee with very little else than proxies of 25% of the election district needed to be constituted at post primary organizational meeting. Several experiments with this petitioning will continue over the next several years in several upstate counties (IPNY and possibly others) as well as the always “minor” NYC GOP in Kings County (Brooklyn)