This Daily News article shows the New York City sample ballot for Mayor. New York state has one of the worst ballot formats of any state. It is a party column ballot. The only other states that still use party column ballots are New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. All other states long ago switched to office group format, in which all the candidates for a particular office are listed clearly together.
BOTTOM 3 —
THE J-I-G IS UP ???
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NONPARTISAN EXECS/JUDICS – APPROVAL VOTING
Are any third-party candidates listed as independent?
New York City has a party column ballot. New York State outside the five boroughs uses a party row ballot.
Texas by statute has party column ballots, but permits the SOS to set formats for machine voting. I don’t know what is used for traditional hand marked ballots.
No, all third party candidates have the labeled they wanted, except that Jim Walden was not permitted to use “Independence”.
OK, so interesting that both Mamdani and Sliwa are cross-party listed. But what happened to column H?
Yeah, what a mess, I read the article: “And even more confusing, unknown independent candidate Joseph Hernandez is on row H in the Bronx and Staten Island, row G in Manhattan and row I in Brooklyn and Queens.”
A mess and then some.
JB —
A DIFFERENT ALPHABET IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF COMMIE NYC BURG ???
“H” as in Hanover, Havana, How, Harry, Hombre, and Hotel. IYKYK, de KY8HCQ.
@JB,
New York City uses the same column for all candidates of the same party (designation). The column letter (A, B, C, etc.) is a virtual column. They are placed in physical columns.
The initial columns (A, B, C, D) are assigned to the qualified parties (Democratic, Republican, Conservative, Working Families). Other letters are assigned to other parties and independent candidates (in New York, independent candidates can choose a party label as may appear on the ballot as a party of one).
In Manhattan, Column H was assigned to an independent candidate for a city council seat, columns M, N, O were assigned to other independent candidates in other council districts.
E, F, G, I, and J (H skipped) were assigned to parties with a mayoral candidate. K was assigned to citywide candidates (Comptroller and Public Advocate). L was assigned to a candidate for borough wide office (District Attorney).
So the mystery is why a lesser office (city council district) was given an earlier letter (H), while other districts were given the last letters used (M, N, O).