{"id":106868,"date":"2020-11-07T04:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomos-cynical-ploy-to-kill-minor-new-york-parties-just-flopped\/"},"modified":"2020-11-07T04:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:17:59","slug":"cuomos-cynical-ploy-to-kill-minor-new-york-parties-just-flopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomos-cynical-ploy-to-kill-minor-new-york-parties-just-flopped\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo’s cynical ploy to kill minor New York parties just flopped"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo’s cynical ploy to kill minor New York parties just flopped<\/strong>”
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\n Kudos to the Conservative and Working Families parties for frustrating Gov. Cuomo\u2019s bid to kill them off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The gov engineered an out-of-the-blue rewrite of state election law, making it far harder for minor parties to earn an automatic line on ballots for the next four years.<\/p>\n

Cuomo has resented the WFP since it dumped him in 2018 in favor of the far-left-leaning Cynthia Nixon. So he got the commission that was writing new campaign-finance rules to strike. For decades, minor parties had to pull 50,000 votes on their line in a gubernatorial election to qualify for the ballot for the following four years. Now their candidate must get 2 percent of the state\u2019s total presidential vote or 130,000 votes, whichever is higher.<\/p>\n

But both parties did it \u2014 getting votes on their lines for Donald Trump and Joe Biden, respectively.<\/p>\n

The gov only killed the Serve America Movement Party, which didn\u2019t field a presidential candidate \u2014 and on principle didn\u2019t endorse a major-party one. (The SAMP is challenging Cuomo\u2019s rules in federal court as a First Amendment violation.)<\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019re not remotely fans of the WFP, and we\u2019re overall sick of the game<\/a>s minor parties play in local politics. But the right app<\/a>roach is to end cross-endorsements: Parties should run their own candidates, as the Greens and Libertarians do, and keep their ballot lines with the old 50,000-votes rule.<\/p>\n

The current system encourages fake parties, and purely mercenary ones that exist mainly to sell their line to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n

Cuomo plainly doesn\u2019t have a problem with that: His gripe was merely that the WFP refused to \u201cstay bought.\u201d<\/p>\n

You might have better luck with a principled reform, governor.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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