The April 8, 2019 issue of The Nation has an article by Maurice Mitchell and Dan Cantor, in support of fusion (letting two parties jointly nominate the same candidate). This is the second article in defense of fusion that The Nation has carried this year.
The article is behind a pay wall, so unless you are a Nation subscriber, it probably can’t be read. The article has a calm tone, reflecting the reality that fusion is almost surely safe in New York state for now. The article is also interesting because it shows that the title of Mitchell is “National Director” of the Working Families Party, and that Dan Cantor is “Chair of the Working Families National Committee.” It is apparently a recent transition for the Working Families Party, that it has a national structure, instead of being a loose group of associated state parties.
ANY articles for PR and AppV – pending Condorcet ???
Before the Australian ballot, fusion was effected by printing a joint ballot. Candidate names were not printed two, three, or more times on the same ballot.
There have been elections in NYC in which con-fused voters overvoted at over 30% because of the con-fused layout of party lines.
If party labels were eliminated from ballots, candidates might vie to be listed on slate cards produced by Working Families, etc.