Makes me write of an interesting NY law and its history.
In NY you can nominate by petition and, for fusion, the nominee on some of
the petitions has to be outside the petitioners' party.
BY NY LAW, if candidate is outside party, petition does not count unless
party leadership approves.
At 03:09 AM 9/15/2006, Scott Ritchie wrote:
An interesting quirk of fusion voting is that it becomes possible for a
candidate to obtain the nomination of every party. While this was rare
for major elections, it did happen in quite a few cases with local
elections. One wonders if more than a few
Fusion voting was a key part of the strategy of the New Party, which
was formed in 1992 and was active for about six years. The party went
into decline after the Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that states are not
required to permit fusion voting. One of the founders of the New Party
and its former
We have an illegal war, an environment in crisis, apparent stolen
elections, increasing probability of losing a major city through
nuclear terrorism, the ever-increasing influence of special interests
in politics, and we need to crush what?
Fusion Voting?
Give me a break.
Fusion Voting, like
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Here's a couple links that talk about this terrible "solution" to the
spoiler problem:
http://www.nmef.org/solution.htm
http://www.blueoregon.com/2006/07/new_party_pushe.html
Ok, yeah, no journalistic integrity, I'm pre-biasing you all against thi
stuff, oh well.
Here's a couple links that talk about this terrible solution to the
spoiler problem:
http://www.nmef.org/solution.htm
http://www.blueoregon.com/2006/07/new_party_pushe.html
Ok, yeah, no journalistic integrity, I'm pre-biasing you all against this
stuff, oh well.
The short short version:
