The New York Times has this story about the fact that no minor party gubernatorial petitions succeeded this year, as a result of the 2020 law that tripled the number of signatures for statewide office, and also increased the vote test for qualified party status from 50,000 votes to 2%. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
As the article says, a State Supreme Court in Albany is still considering whether to grant injunctive relief to the statewide Libertarian slate. Also the Second Circuit will hear a similar federal case in early September. The article does not mention the Second Circuit case.
The story gives prominent mention to the fact that this is the first time since 1946 that New York has had only two candidates on the general election ballot for Governor. It could have added that 1946 is the only year like that since the beginning of government-printed ballots in 1890.
The Libertarian cases pending in State Court in Albany are Sharpe v New York State Board of Elections, 4989-22, and Hollister v New York State Board of Elections, 4990-22.
Would 5,000 signatures be a good number for NY?
I don’t think the article mentioned the fact that this is the direct result of Gov Cuomo’s attempt to restrict access to public campaign finance by independent and third party candidates.
the article does blame Governor Andrew Cuomo, but doesn’t go that deeply into his evolving motivations.
New York Times is FAKE NEWS. Why does Richard Winger always use fake news sources?
NY should either roll the signature requirement back to 15,000, or triple the circulating time for the 45,000 signatures.
They could also make it 30,000 signatures, and allow more than 6 weeks for collection, like allow 12 weeks, or better yet, 18 weeks.
45,000 signatures in 6 weeks is insanely difficult.
There is no reason for New York or any other state to care how early a petition starts to circulate. Most states don’t stop petitions from circulating as early as the proponents wish. Having a very long petitioning period helps grass roots efforts, when the group can’t afford to hire paid circulators.
It took the California Libertarian Party seven years to get enough registered members to qualify as a party, from 1972 through 1979. The state didn’t care how long it took, which is a good policy.
It could be said that the California registration drive in the 70’s is still the biggest ballot access drive the LP has ever done.
I thought Richard had written somewhere that 5,000 signatures was the most required for a statewide office?
New York should eliminate the con-fusion party nominations. Let a candidate initially qualify by paying a filing fee ($10?) and the support of 10 individuals. If there are more than 12 candidates for an office, have a secondary period where supporters go to courthouse to register their support. The Top 12 go on the ballot.
November election day. If no majority, runoff one week later.
No, Edward, I had written that in 2020, not one single minor party or independent candidate petition succeeded, anywhere in the nation, if it was more than 5,000 signatures.
EQUAL BALLOT ACCESS TESTS FOR ***INDIVIDUAL*** CANDIDATES — NOM PETS / FEES.
EVERY ELECTION IS N-E-W.
SCOTUS- BRAIN DEAD SINCE 1968 WILLIAMS V RHODES– MERE 54 YEARS.
The minor party and independent candidates in 2020 not qualifying for the ballot in 2020 if the signature requirement was over 5,000 was due in large part to the COVID restrictions.
Note that there were ballot initiatives and recalls which gathered in the hundreds of thousands, or a million plus signatures, during the same time frame as the COVID restrictions took place.
The only recall petition recently that gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures was the California gubernatorial recall, and those signatures were mostly gathered before covid.
Which one was the bigger scam… the phony China virus plandemic or the Cuomo crime family? Maybe it was all part of the same scam.
How many issue petitions in 2020 and 2022 with zillions of voter sigs getting ballot access ???
ONE voter forms for cand noms and issue pets.
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We the people elected Trump (twice) to drain the swamp and save America and make it great again. The first time the deep state and fake news evildoers and traitor scum nullified the will of the people with the Russia hoax and impeachment hoax part 1 and 2 and the ridiculous phony china virus plandemic. The second time they just plain rigged and stole the election and put in a dementia ridden puppet for the Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs.
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