Sentences with phrase «fusion voting»

Every state that allows fusion voting protects the rights of parties to choose their own candidates.

Normally, this is plays out with third parties in what is called fusion voting.

But more political efforts, like doing away with fusion voting and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system, could still be a tough sell.

Certain states permit fusion voting, which allows multiple political parties to nominate the same candidate.

One can't help but point out that this is not the first time that establishment power has decided that one potent way to weaken the progressive left is to eliminate fusion voting.

Its power primarily lies in states that allow fusion voting.

Rob Harding explains the importance of fusion voting in New York, which is one of the few states that allow it.

Consider his interactions with the Working Families Party, a homegrown New York third party of unions and liberal groups that, because of the state's unique fusion voting system, has become an electoral powerhouse over the past decade.

Politicians said it helps enable fusion voting in New York, a process where a single candidate can appear on multiple party lines.

While critics of fusion voting said it gives minor parties undue influence in elections, Erie County Conservative Party Chair Ralph Lorigo said it actually allows voters to pick the candidate who best represents their core values.

New York's unique fusion voting system is again in the spotlight this year, with renewed attention in the wake of Cynthia Nixon's insurgent challenge for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination against Governor Andrew Cuomo, with the potential for vote - splitting on the left leading to a Republican victory in November.

Onondaga County Democratic Election Commissioner Dustin Czarny says New York is one of only three states that uses what's called fusion voting on Election Day, which allows people to run on multiple lines.

The Working Families Party benefits from New York's electoral fusion voting laws that allow cross-endorsement of a single candidate by multiple parties.

New York law allows for fusion voting, and Democratic politicians often seek the WFP line as a buttress, and its support has at times tipped the scales in Democratic primaries for local races.

Not surprisingly, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot line.

«If they do away with Wilson - Pakula, and do away fusion voting eventually, we would probably go out of business but we're not going to go out of business right away.»

The influential Erie County Democratic Town Chairs Association has unanimously called for ending the power of party leaders to enable candidates from other parties to run on their lines — otherwise known as fusion voting.

He could perhaps try to scuttle fusion voting in New York, though that would hurt other minor parties, like the Cuomo - loyal Independence Party, and also is something he has tried before but never followed through on.

Opponents of fusion voting argue that the process results in dealmarking to ensure that patronage is rampant.

Opponents argue that fusion voting encourages corruption.

There is a good chance most New Yorkers don't know about fusion voting.

Fusion voting giveth and fusion voting taketh away.

In states, like New York, were fusion voting exists the state Reform Party affiliate can choose to cross endorse any candidate of its choosing.

The party also worked to oppose House Bill 3230 in the 2007 South Carolina State Legislature, which would have banned fusion voting in the state.

But while New York's fusion voting system allows candidates who are registered Democrats to receive the ballot line from a party in which they are not enrolled, the party's officers still must be members of that party.

(Note: I originally wrote that Cuomo proposed doing away with fusion voting, which is the bread - and - butter of minor parties.

Proponents of fusion voting say it gives voters a choice if they don't want to cast a vote on the Democratic or Republican lines, even if it's for the same candidate.

And progressives in others states should also note that the WFP already occupies an unusual position because New York is one of the very few states that permits fusion voting.

Today in New York and Connecticut, the more conservative elements in the Democratic Party are trying to eliminate fusion voting, and it remains to be seen whether the WFP and its allies in community, labor, civil rights, environmental, student and feminist organizations can stop them.

WFP, a progressive political party founded in 1998 in New York by labor unions and community organizations with chapters nationwide, takes advantage of New York's fusion voting laws — which allow small third parties to cross-endorse Democratic and Republican candidates.

«While WFP regularly rails against business interests, the fact that they control a ballot line in a state that allows fusion voting has given them an unfair influence in campaigns.

New York is one of a small number of states that allows a practice called fusion voting.

Green Party leaders split somewhat from their minor party colleagues, saying they would like to see an end to so - called fusion voting (which, by the way, the governor has so far NOT proposed), insisting that third parties should end their habit of cross-endorsing major party candidates in order to maintain their autonomy and remain ideologically pure.

It was formed in the late 1990s out of the ashes of the short - lived New Party to take advantage of a quirk in New York state's election laws that, virtually alone among the states, permits «fusion voting,» in which a party can cross-endorse members of another party.

Lorigo doesn't expect any attempt to get rid of fusion voting to be successful but if it were, he said, in essence, it would be the end for minor parties in New York.

[4] Proponents maintain that fusion voting allows for minor parties to actually make a difference during the election, allowing voters the opportunity to vote for a minority party platform but still affect the general election result.

Because of New York's practice of fusion voting, most third parties typically nominate a major party candidate for their ballot line.

New York's unique «fusion voting» system allows minor parties to cross-endorse Democrats and Republicans, and lets voters cast their ballots for a politician on any one of a number of party lines.

The Conservative Party typically supports the GOP nominee by utilizing New York's fusion voting system, which allows candidates to appear on multiple ballot lines.

(New York is one of six states that permits «fusion voting,» or permitting votes cast for a candidate appearing on multiple ballot lines to be counted for that one candidate; thus, New York is home to several minor parties — the Independence Party on Row C, the Conservative Party on Row D, and the WFP on Row E — that «cross-endorse» major party nominees for office).

It is the kind of cynical prevarication that turns people away from electoral politics and only the latest example of why Opportunity to Ballot and «fusion voting» should be abolished in New York State.»

Katrina vanden Heuvel provides a history lesson on fusion voting, noting this isn't the first time the establishment has taken aim at third parties.

Because New York is one of the few states that allow fusion voting, third parties are constantly trying to maintain a delicate balance between small - i independence and cooperation with major party candidates — especially when it comes to the governor's race, which can make or break a minor party.

Thanks to New York's fusion voting system, the Working Families Party typically cross-endorses Democrats for general elections in New York, though it sometimes runs against the Democratic establishment in primaries.

«For years, I sat idly by as our party made their number one priority maintaining Republican control of the state senate (anything but independent) so as to make sure the state's unique system of fusion voting could be preserved - not for any principle mind you, solely so that those in leadership positions could continue to hold on to patronage jobs (anathema to the party's stated agenda) and get invited to the good parties.»

The Green Party makes a point of never endorsing the candidacies of members of other parties, as is permitted by New York's unusual electoral rules, preferring to run «independent candidates» rather than make a living off of fusion voting, the general strategy of Working Families Party.

Rescinding or amending what's known as the Wilson Pakula law would not end so - called fusion voting, which allows parties to cross endorse candidates.