On October 27, New York Assemblymember Pat Burke (D-West Seneca) introduced A8178. It deals with ballot format. New York currently has disaggregated fusion, which means that when a candidate is the nominee of two parties, he or she can receive votes separately under each party label. Aggregated fusion is a system in which a candidate with two nominations is only listed on the ballot once, with both party labels attached next to the candidate’s name.
The bill would switch New York to aggregated fusion, except for President and Governor races. Here is a description of the bill from the New York legislature’s website.
The author says he wants New York ballots to be simpler, but it is not simplification to have two different types of fusion on one ballot. He probably made an exception for President and Governor because the current New York definition of a qualified party is tied to how many votes a party receives for those two races. It would be far simpler if his bill also amended the definition of a qualified party to be a group with a certain number of registered voters. That idea would have the advantage that a group could transform itself a qualified party at any time, by doing a registration drive.
The Conservative Party and the Working Families Party will surely be fierce opponents of A8178.
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There are instances of disaggregated fusion already. I think in congressional races.
Sometimes if a candidate has three nominations, the law puts that candidate on the ballot twice, once with one party label, and the other time with two labels.
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I’m zero percent Puerto Rican, and oppose dangerous fraud promoting schemes such as approval voting.
Whether parties have primaries or not should be up to those parties, as long as they pay for and administer whatever method they choose themselves rather than having taxpayers pay and government bureaucracy and courts involved in their selection process.
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