U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, will hold oral argument in Credico vs. New York State Board of Elections, 10-cv-4555, on October 13 at 10 a.m. This is the case that challenges New York state policy that lets a candidate appear twice on the November ballot if he or she is the nominee of a qualified party and an unqualified party, or the nominee of two qualified parties; but if the candidate is the nominee of two unqualified parties, the candidate’s name can only appear once on the ballot.
The plaintiff, Randy Credico, had been the nominee for U.S. Senate in 2010 of both the Libertarian Party and the Anti-Prohibition Party, but the state forced him to choose one of those lines, instead of printing his name twice, once under each label.
Other laws that are questionable are: not counting write-in names if they are already on a party's line, not notifying the voter that if they select the same candidate on different party's lines, we use fusion voting, the voting system will only count the first selection found and not indicating an over-vote.
There are many other problems that are going through our court system, but for me, the closed primaries that disenfranchises over 2 million independent voters from taking part in the candidate selection process needs to be fixed with open primaries.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!
Michael H. Drucker
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