On September 10, the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest state court, refused to hear Cartwright v Kennedy. This is the case in which the lower state courts had ruled that Kennedy can’t be on the ballot because he didn’t really live at the address he listed on his declaration of candidacy.
Kennedy has a case in federal court in New York, but if he doesn’t win that, New York will be the only state in the nation with only two presidential candidates’ names on the November 2024 ballot, something that the New York newspapers have not mentioned. Kennedy is on in Illinois, and many candidates are on in Tennessee, and Chase Oliver is on the ballot in the other 47 states, along with many other presidential candidates in most cases. Oliver is not on in the District of Columbia either, but Kennedy is.
What does it matter if he lives in New York or not? That isn’t a requirement to run for president.
I hope Kennedy comes in third in the popular vote.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/politics/early-voting-election-what-matters/index.html
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Is the AZ bot for or against snail mail voting? Programming dissonance?
ANY RFKJR APPEALS TO SCOTUS ???
In 2020, over 100,000 New Yorkers voted for someone else besides Biden and Trump.
In 2016, nearly 300,000 New Yorkers voted for someone else besides Clinton and Trump. That’s more than the total number of people voting in all of Wyoming.
With those numbers, surely there’s a target audience for a newspaper article about the lack of choices in New York in 2024! Many news agencies are good at pushing specific articles to target audiences. They are probably waiting to see if Kennedy loses his federal case.
@Thecommander Jeff
If I recall correctly, Cartwright’s argument is that RFK deliberately “misled” New Yorkers to be more appealing to them, by falsely advertising himself as their favorite son. That just owning an apartment in New York is insufficient to make him a resident. And that his petition might not have collected sufficient signatures to be on the New York ballots, if signatories hadn’t been “misled”. Something along those lines. A pretty wild stretch for the courts to have ruled in favor of.
Does the Independence Party still have major party status in New York? I know they have nominated third party candidates in the past. Do we know who they’re nominating if they’re on the ballot?
Gregory, no, unfortunately New York state banned the use of “independence” in a party name, so the independence party is no longer a ballot qualified party
The parties are Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Working Families. Trump is the candidate of two and Harris is the candidate of two. In New York, we don’t have time to deal with the minor party creeps. We’re fucking New York and the rest of the states suck!