The New York Libertarian Party, and the New York Green Party, have filed this brief in Libertarian Party of New York v New York State Board of Elections, s.d., 1:20cv-5820. This is the case over the ballot access law passed on April 1, 2020, that tripled the number of signatures for statewide independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties; and also more than tripled the number of votes needed for a party to be ballot-qualified.
The state has not yet responded, but it will soon.
How soon before TYRANT Cuomo declares NY to be a ONE Party regime ???
See Lenin 1918 and Mussolini 1922 and Hitler 1933.
Both the Libertarian and Green Parties are using a one-party system because when there are only two choices the one party with the most votes wins.
That’s a one-party voting system.
The two-party system is three choices or more, voter gets one plurality vote, that’s how we get the split-vote problem.
Only limited voting brings the three-party system.
We’re now signing up two “Senator Electors” in every state.
http://Www.allpartysystem.com/schedule-2021.php
Find which Electors are being categorized as US Senator Electors and which Congressional district each Elector picks as the information gets updated on the page where the 2020 rankings of #1 through #538 get recorded here;
http://Www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-13-totals.php
Please feel free to contact volunteer vote counterJames Ogle [One] in order to make improvements, corrections, suggestions, etc. for the status of your name and your vote as Elector.
New names and new ideas get registered by completing the vote on paperballot;
http://www.allpartysystem.com/e-aps-13.pdf
Although this brief is adequate as to federal claims, it could lose, because federal law is very permissive about how states handle ballot access. The reason new york’s actions are unlawful is that they violate the state constitutional right to ballot access. I do not recall the name of the case that established fusion in new york over 100 years ago, but that is the landmark they need to be citing to. I have not read the complaint, but if relies solely on federal claims it is not competent work.
https://gothamist.com/news/cuomos-push-ban-fusion-voting-could-violate-state-constitution
“It’s unconstitutional because the Court of Appeals has repeatedly and unequivocally said it’s unconstitutional,” said Richard Brodsky, a lawyer for WFP and a former state assemblymember. “As a lawyer, I’m fortunate in not having to say, ‘Your honor, it is my opinion this is unconstitutional.’ I am able to say the Court of Appeals has explicitly ruled the right to fusion cannot be overturned or infringed upon.” No state Supreme Court judge, insisted Brodsky, “can shrug off three Court of Appeals decisions and say, ‘I don’t care.’”
I was going to get in touch with Brodsky, but he’s dead. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/nyregion/richard-brodsky-dead.html
Robbin, the Commission did not end up banning fusion. These are increased voter thresholds in general. The affect on fusion is indirect at best.