Sentences with phrase «fusion voting in»

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.

«That is an incredibly valuable piece of real estate,» says Steve Hughes, director of WFP's Oregon chapter, which convinced state legislators to establish fusion voting in 2009.

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

The five states in which it operates (New York, Connecticut, South Carolina, Vermont, and Oregon) all have enacted «fusion voting» — a system in which each party that qualifies gets a spot on the ballot — in some states its own line with a check box — where it can list the candidate it favors, regardless of party.

«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.

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.»

Its power primarily lies in states that allow fusion voting.

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.

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.

New York's fusion voting system allows major - party candidates to appear on (and create) minor party lines, to identify with particular issues or simply have their name appear in multiple places.

In New York, which also uses fusion, the order of parties is also determined by the gubernatorial vote for each party, but New York determines the order by looking at the vote for each party, and not the cumulative vote for any particular candidate who has the nomination of more than one party.

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.

The row has been brought to a head by the European Parliament which, in an attempt to force an end to the dispute, voted in December to block 30 per cent of Europe's fusion budget until talks on a compromise begin.

With no settlement in sight, the European Parliament's budgets committee voted in December to dock 59 million Ecus (# 44 million) from this year's fusion programme.

Europe's largest fusion facility, the Joint European Torus (JET), is sited near Oxford, U.K.; a vote to leave would put it in a legal limbo that could halt vital research supporting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), now under construction in France.

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