New York has the most restrictive election laws in the nation, on the variable of when a voter must join a party in order to vote in its upcoming primary. New York voters who wish to vote in either the Republican or Democratic presidential primary next year must join that party by October 9, 2015. No other state has a deadline nearly that restrictive. The New York presidential primaries are on April 19, 2016.
This Buffalo News op-ed, by Peter Ryan, criticizes the restriction. It also criticizes the New York State Board of Elections for not publicizing this deadline on its website.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld this deadline in Rosario v Rockefeller, 410 US 752, in 1973. The vote was 5-4.
A-L-L houses of A-L-L State legislatures are EVIL and vicious ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander oligarchies — nonstop since day 1 on 4 July 1776.
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 pack/crack gerrymander districts = 1/4 or less CONTROL. Much worse primary math.
The media is brain dead.
The courts are all brain dead.
i.e. nothing special about the EVIL rot in NY.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
times five