New York Assemblymember J. Gary Pretlow (D-Mount Vernon) has re-introduced his bill to define a political party as a group that received at least 100,000 votes for Governor. The current law says a party is a group that polled at least 50,000 votes for Governor. Assemblymember Pretlow introduced the same bill in 2009, and it made no headway.

The bill seems very hostile toward the Green Party, which is the only New York qualified party that polled fewer than 100,000 votes for Governor last year. If the bill passed this year, the Green Party, and all qualified parties, would first need to pass the 100,000 hurdle in November 2014.