Newsday, one of New York state’s largest daily newspapers, here editorializes that ballot access is too easy in the state, and should be made more difficult. The editorial recommends that the definition of “political party” be changed from a group that got 50,000 votes for Governor, to one that got 150,000. That change, if in effect now, would remove the Libertarian, Green, Working Families, Independence, and SAM Parties from the ballot. Only the Conservative, Democratic, and Republican Parties would be left.
The editorial says the 50,000 vote test was set in 1935, and tripling it would only keep up with growth. Actually if it were to be increased in accord with the growth in the electorate, the new requirement would be 54,850, not 150,000. In 1936 the gubernatorial vote was 5,557,339 (not counting blank votes). In 2018 it was 6,097,368 (again, not counting blank votes). That is an increase of only 9.7%.
The editorial fails to mention that New York is one of only eleven states that lacks any procedure for a group to become a qualified party in advance of any particular election.
At one time or another, between 1974 and 2017, the Libertarian Party attained qualified status in 43 states, but never New York. Only in November 2018 did the Libertarian Party attain qualified status in New York. That shows that in realistic terms, New York already has one of the nation’s most difficult thresholds for qualified party status.
Too many media MORONS to count — in this NEW DARK AGE of MORONS in high places.
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NO primaries.
EQUAL nom pets for INDIVIDUAL candidates
PR and AppV and TOTSOP
So Richard, which States has the Libertarian party NEVER been ballot qualified & when was the closest it came if it has tried at some point in the past?
Minnesota (must get 5% for any statewide race, or submit a 5% petition, or qualify about 75 candidates for federal and state office via the independent petition).
New Jersey (must poll 10% for legislature, lower house)
Pennsylvania (must have registration of 15% of the state total)
Rhode Island (must poll 5% for president or governor at either of the last two elections, or submit a 5% petition)
Tennessee (must submit a petition of 2.5% of the last gub. vote)
Virginia (must poll 10% for any statewide race at either of last two elections)
SAM Party??
It’s short for “Serve America Movement” but it appears on the ballot as SAM.
How many zillion words in ALL the UNEQUAL ballot access laws and regs [and even rotted court ops upholding A-N-Y of the UNEQUAL rot] ???
Like being at Verdun in 1916 in WW I or Stalingrad in 1942 in WW II – one evil stinking corpse mess.
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14-1 EQUAL ballot access laws
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The Establishment wants to limit voter choice.
If New York would eliminate exclusionary partisan nominations, there would be no reason to have party qualification.
Remove party labels from the ballot. Interested groups could distribute slate cards.
The only populous nation in the world that has non-partisan elections for important national office is Iran, which is no model of enlightenment and democracy.
NO *parties* in Iran — or mere another ONE party regime killer state — with some top DARK AGE olde religion fanatics ???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
olde Persia = BARBARIANS as far as Greece in 500 BC was concerned.
Back to the rotted past since 1979 – esp due to rotted Brits after WW I ??? Duh.
@RW,
San Francisco has nonpartisan elections. Are you claiming that political parties don’t support candidates in San Francisco?
minnesota has four major parties and three minor ones.
hopefully printable letters are sent off to the newspaper in reply.
https://sfbos.org/roster-members
11 gerrymander district HACKS
about nonpartisan as the 49 gerrymander district HACKS in the NE legislature.
SF BD. Supers. is both a city and county body.
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Note that when the Libertarian Party achieves ballot status, they want to change the rules.
New York has 8 ballot-qualified parties:
Democratic 3,158,459
Republican 1,824,581
Conservative 238,578
Working Families 106,008
Green 95,716
Libertarian 90,816
Independence 63,518
SAM 51,367
Note that if Newsday got its way, only the Democrats, Republicans, and Conservatives would have ballot status. Combined with repealing Wilson-Pakula, which they also want to do, this would ensure that Democrat votes would be united behind a single candidate, while Republican-Conservative votes would be divided, thus all but guaranteeing perpetual Democrat victories, which is the real aim here: to rig the system.
How soon before ALL non-Donkey RED commies are dead/moved OUT of NY — leaving the RED commies to eat each other — OR have a regime collapse.
See END ROTS of the olde 1989-1991 RED commie regimes in E. Europe.
email address to contact the newspaper?
https://www.newsday.com/
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