Sentences with phrase «fusion voting in the state»

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.

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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.

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

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.

«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.

«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.