According to this Albany Times Union story, no specific challenges were filed to the statewide New York petitions for the Libertarian Party, nor for the Serve America Movement Party. Therefore they are on the November ballot.
According to this Albany Times Union story, no specific challenges were filed to the statewide New York petitions for the Libertarian Party, nor for the Serve America Movement Party. Therefore they are on the November ballot.
New York already has 8 ballot-qualified parties. If these two get the necessary 50,000 votes for governor and no more than one of the existing 8 parties fails to do so, New York is going to run out of ballot lines.
New York should eliminate party lines, they aren’t needed since they aren’t using the mechanical behemoths any more.
Jim, I completely agree.
Tim, I predict that both the Women’s Equality Party and the Reform Party will fail to get at least 50,000 votes in November 2018. One reason I predict this, is the weakness of both parties in 2016. Reform didn’t have a presidential nominee, but only got 17,813 votes for US Senate (who was also the Republican nominee).
Women’s Equality only got 36,294 for president, and turnout in presidential years is considerably higher than in midterm years. For US Senate in 2016, Women’s Equality only got 45,402 for Chuck Schumer.
How many States still have the party lines/columns stuff ???
Office blocs —
PR and AppV
WEP has nominated Cuomo. If Andrew Cuomo were to lose the Democratic Primary, he could continue to run on the WEP and Independence lines.
Cynthia Nixon has been nominated by Working Families, but has said that if she loses the Democratic Primary, she will accept a nomination for an Assembly seat, which would let the WFP choose a different nominee. But would Cuomo accept the WFP nomination, and if not, what would they do?
The Conservative and Reform parties have both nominated Marcus Molinaro, the Republican nominee.
In addition to Sharpe (Libertarian) and Miner (Save America Movement), Howie Hawkins (Green) are running as single party candidates. Jimmy McMillan has filed as the candidate of the “Rent Too Damn High” party, but the petition appears to be under challenge. In the past McMillan has run as the candidate of the “Rent Is 2 Damn High” party, with name modified in both cases to fit ballot limits.
New York could simply let individual candidates petition (1/10 of 1% of the gubernatorial vote is around 3900). If more than two file for the same party, there could be a primary. This eliminates the need for party qualification.
I’ve not heard that Nixon is willing to run for another office.
Why wasn’t Rocky de la Fuente on the ballot for President in New York in 2016? I recall Rocky won the Reform Party’s presidential nomination, and that he was on tge ballot in Florida and one or two other states as tge Reform Party nominee.
YES! Run, Jimmy, Run!
Andy, it may be because in 2016, there was a fight over who the legitimate state officers of the New York Reform Party were, which had not yet been settled. Also the New York Reform Party officers (all factions) never really cared much about the doings of the national Reform Party.
@Tim,
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-nixon-glick-working-families-party-20180717-story.html
Under the scheme Nixon would not “run” for the office but would be made the WFP nominee for an assembly seat so that she could be replaced as the WFP gubernatorial nominee.
It is possible that Nixon is not entirely on board with the scheme. If she is asked whether she would run as the WFP candidate for governor in the event she loses the Democratic primary, she would likely assert that she was going to win the primary – rather than say “if we don’t win I’ll support Cuomo 100%”