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New York Revises Voter Registration Form to List All Eight Ballot-Qualified Parties

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Richard Winger

Here is the latest version of the New York state voter registration form. It has been revised to list the two parties that became ballot-qualified in November 2014, the Women’s Equality Party and the Reform Party (which changed its name recently and had been the Stop Common Core Party). Thanks to Michael Drucker for the link.

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New York Revises Voter Registration Form to List All Eight Ballot-Qualified Parties — 10 Comments

Demo Rep on February 27, 2015 at 10:11 pm said:

What hack has gotten the most party hack nominations in the NY fusion system ???
David on February 27, 2015 at 10:32 pm said:

So are there two Reform Parties in New York?
Alabama Independent on February 27, 2015 at 10:51 pm said:

There was only one Reform Party listed on the Registration Form. Why would ask if there was two Reform Parties in New York State?
David on February 27, 2015 at 10:57 pm said:

Because there was the old Perot Reform Party, that I believe still has the naming rights of Reform Party or whatever. http://reformpartyny.org/
This is not the same Reform Party listed on the form.
James Ogle on February 28, 2015 at 9:32 am said:

Fusion voting as in New York is no good because names are placed on the ballot with more than one political party and that causes problems for the vote counters, the voters and the results can never be fair and proportional.

The answer is to simply allow let any candidate proclaim any party/category they wish, to use pure proportional representation (PR) when counting the votes.

The 9th USA Parliament has been doing this for twenty consecutive years and it works perfectly:
http://www.usparliament.org/
Richard Winger on February 28, 2015 at 12:03 pm said:

There is no mechanism for parties to protect their name on the national level. Fights over whether certain groups have the right to a unique party name must be fought out within each state.

Even if the Reform Psrty started by Ross Perot in 1995 had an active presence in New York state, it would be out of luck (without being a qualified party) because New York state has no laws on party name protection for unqualified parties. Some other states do.
Clay on February 28, 2015 at 1:06 pm said:

I wish the form was a little more clear about the rules regarding the relationship between party enrollment and primary participation.
Alabama Independent on February 28, 2015 at 10:14 pm said:

This most likely will end up in litigation.
Demo Rep on March 1, 2015 at 2:08 pm said:

ALL sane States have *assumed name* laws for artificial persons – biz, groups, etc.

i.e. any *common law* assumed name stuff for political parties ???
GreenGenes on March 3, 2015 at 3:04 pm said:

The party Perot ran on in NY was named the Independence Party. There had been no Reform Party in NY.