The New York Assembly Elections Committee will consider a bill to merge the Federal and State primaries into one date.
New York Assembly member Michael Cusick (D-Staten Island) has introduced AB 9108, to merge the Federal and State primaries into one date.
The New York bill will be heard in the Assembly Elections Committee during the week of February 1-5.
The bill would merge the primaries for Congressional elections, now slated for the end of June, with the September State and Local party primary contests.
The measure comes as New York once again faces the costly prospect of three primaries:
- April 19, 2016, Presidential primaries and possible two Special elections
- June 28, 2016, Federal primaries, plus possible runoffs
- September 13, 2016, State & Local primaries, plus possible runoffs
- November 8, 2016, General Election
Since New York is a closed state, Democrats, Republican, and Minor party voters could have to vote six times. While 2,704,838 registered voters will only go to the polls once, the General election, and have to vote on candidates they did not have a chance to take part in their selection.
New York needs a new election system that allows the tax payers who pay for the election process, takes part in it.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
3 comments:
Your post doesn't mention the sneak attack in A9108 on independent candidates. The bill changes the petition deadline from August 23 to June 7. That would give New York the 2nd earliest independent presidential petition deadline in the nation; only Texas would be worse. This bill seems to be a sneak attack on Bloomberg.
I do not know if this matters, but Bloomberg said he would make his decision in March. With his money, he should have enough time to collect signatures by June 7th.
But it's bigger than just Bloomberg. Courts in 5 states have ruled that June deadlines are unconstitutionally early. The five states are Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, and South Dakota. The lawsuit that enjoined the Nevada June deadline was Fulani v Lau, and the case was won by Gary Sinawski.
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