Schenectady, New York, elects its Mayor in partisan elections this year. The primaries are on September 13. A registered independent, Roger Hull, has the Republican Party mayoral nomination, and also the nomination of an unqualified party, the Alliance Party. He hopes to also get the nominations of any of these qualified parties: the Working Families, Conservative, Independence, and Green Parties. His supporters have filed the needed petitions to win the right to run as a write-in candidate in the primaries of those parties. See this story. Thanks to Bill Allen for the link. The only other candidate for Mayor is the Democratic incumbent, Gary McCarthy.
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As long as his name is not on the party’s ballot line. In NY if the write-in name is also on a party’s line, the write-in is not counted.
This is an OTB primary election issue for IP, WFP, GP write-in.
— in an OTB primary, the general election statute barring writing in the name of a candidate already on the ballot would not apply since Hall does not have designating petitions and wilson-pecula(sp) ballot access authorization from these minor parties.
#3 has it. This provision of election law, the “Opportunity to Ballot” is being used exactly as intended. It is being used by a major party candidate, who can not otherwise get the nomination of a minor party, to steal the ballot line of any and all minor parties. This is just another example of the depravity of the “two party system”.
#4…This is not an example of the depravity of the “two party system”…You would need the “two party” system involved to make this statement…The Alliance Party is an independent party created of Independents, Democrat and Republican….It is a slate of all, not just one…So where would the depravity be in this case?