This New York Daily News story says New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants the legislative budget bill to include a revision of the definition of “political party”, and an increase in the petition requirement for statewide independent and minor party candidates.
If that happens, it would violate due process to increase the petition requirement in the middle of an election year.
HOW MANY TYRANT GENES IN ROTTED NEW YORK –FED/STATE/LOCALS ???
The Daily News _may_ be making unfounded speculation.
There was probably legislative support for public financing, but disagreement over which piggies would get funded. The commission was a way to get details to be worked out rather than sunk in the legislative process.
The Working Families party were quite content to have public funding (oink, oink). Their legal claim was that changing the ballot access laws was beyond the authority of a non-legislative body (squeal)
But the New York court ruled that all the decisions by the commission were unconstitutional. This was not based on the content of the rules, but the process of their creation.
The legislature could simply pass all of the funding rules (plus add a funding source such as an income tax checkoff). This would satisfy all the useful idiots (LWV, Common Cause, Brennan Center).
The rationale for the increased ballot access barrier was pretextual. If there were too many candidates the funds would be depleted. Besides the Democrats (and Republicans) adequately represent all viewpoints.
If the legislature were to re-enact the higher barrier, they would simply set an effective date of January 1, 2021. The public funding provisions would not have taken effect until the date after the 2022 general election (applying mainly to the 2024 elections, plus any 2023 special elections).
The democrats and republicans don’t adequately represent my viewpoint.
@Edward,
https://campaignfinancereform.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2019/12/campaignfinancereformfinalreport.pdf
See pages 36, 41+, 61+ (add four for PDF page number)
In particular see page 64 where higher thresholds will help parties to “begin functioning like a legitimate party organization”.
Jay Jacobs is head of the NYS Democratic Party and chair of the commission. Clearly his interest would be in frugally husbanding limited state resources, and ensuring only real candidates get public funding.
Fine. So if a party skips public funds no higher barriers right?
@Edward,
Jay Jacobs, New York Democratic Party Boss, is looking out for the voters and taxpayers. You appear to only be concerned with narrow partisan interests.
The voters and taxpayers would be better off keeping their money. The democrats and republicans offer no such options.