It has been over five months since the November 2014 election, when the Women’s Equality Party became ballot-qualified by polling over 50,000 votes for Andrew Cuomo for Governor. According to this story, the party still has no officers and no bylaws.
The other party that became qualified in New York in November 2014, the Stop Common Core Party, now renamed the Reform Party, does have one officer now, but it also has no bylaws, according to the story.
So if I lived in New York and wanted to become an officer in that party, how would I do so?
You would need an OK From Governor Andrew Cuomo or Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul. New York law says when a group polls enough votes to become a qualified party, in its first year, the party’s statewide candidates run the party. Cuomo and Hochul were the party’s only statewide candidates in Nov. 2014.
In 2015 there will be a primary to choose party nominees and also party officers. The petitions to get on the primary ballot for this party should be very easy because it has such a tiny number of registered voters.
Richard,
The NYS elections website shows the Women’s Equality Party has 12 people enrolled in the party as of April 1; all but one live outside NYC. I don’t see how a hypothetical petition could succeed, seeing that it has such few members. In comparison the (new) Reform Party has ten members; none live in NYC and another two are listed as inactive. The county with the largest number of members for both parties is Suffolk, with three and four members, respectively.