On June 5, bills were introduced in the New York legislature to move the presidential primaries to April 2. They are A7690 and S7550, and they are expected to pass quickly.
New York holds its primaries for non-presidential office in June. It is expensive to hold primaries on two different dates.
In 2020 the New York presidential primaries were June 23, because then-Governor Andrew Cuomo had cancelled them by executive order but then state courts had ruled he didn’t have authority to do that. Therefore the presidential primaries were delayed and were on the same day as the primaries for non-presidential office.
In 2016 the New York presidential primaries were on April 19 and the congressional primaries were on June 28.
1000S OF ELECTION LAW BILLS NOW IN USA CONGRESS / STATES — ESP TO RIG RESULTS – ESP TO KEEP INCUMBENTS IN POWER ???
SUPER-COMPUTER NEEDED TO KEEP TRACK – IF NOT RW ???
They’re supposed to come after Labor Day.
There is no expense if there are no primaries.
Jim Riley is correct. Furthermore, AZ for once is on the right track, but not nearly as far along it a he should be. Complexity of laws and legislation is indeed a huge problem in many different ways.
But, any serious discussion about that point, regardless of whether my own ideal solution is either realistic or not or goes too far in the other direction or not, is not to be had here, apparently.AZ is quite obviously neither interested in nor capable of it, and others appear to have no interest in a real discussion either, although at least some of them are no doubt capable of one.
HISTORY MEANS ABOUT ZERO FOR SOME FOLKS.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PARTISAN HACK EXECS REGIMES ???
WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN NONPARTISAN EXECS REGIMES ???
WHICH HAS BEEN *BETTER* FOR PERSONAL LIFE, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY *RIGHTS* ???
— AND PUBLIC OFFICER CORRUPTION IN SUCH REGIMES
– ESP IF THE TOP EXECS ARE ALL OF THE SAME PARTY – IE COVER-UPS / IGNORING CRIMES/TORTS ???
Instead of asking questions, make your case. What are the national and state level nonpartisan regimes, now or in the past? Were they in fact better? What measures of better are you using? If they were better, what other factors may have been the cause? Are there enough examples to draw definite conclusions?
If you are drawing conclusions from municipal elections, is there in fact such evidence at the municipal level, where de jure nonpartisan elections are common? Again, attach the previous set of questions, plus why you think it would scale to hundreds of millions of citizens or voters in a jurisdiction.
Of course, Max is right about one thing if nothing else, in that expecting actual answers to questions and rational discussion from AZ is a foolish errand. But, there are some other defenders of nonpartisan elections here, including at least Jim Riley and perhaps some others. Will even one of them be bothered to make an actual case and in good faith participate in a real discussion of the relative merits? Does intelligent life reside on this planet, perhaps hidden in a cave or buried under ice somewhere?