An End to Third Parties in NYS?

[Catskillkid]

Third parties in New York face extinction under proposed plan

Anyone who follows politics knows that Cuomo was ROYALLY pissed that the Working Families Party nominated Cynthia Nixon and not him initially during the last gubernatorial election. This is his way of getting back at them. When I was campaigning this year, just about everyone I spoke with said this would be the last election where Fusion Voting would be a thing in NYS.

In my case I was on both the Republican and Independence Party lines (I tried to get the Conservative Party but they did not nominate me due to a personal issue that I have with our Town's Conservative Party boss). Not that it much mattered to me. I got way more votes on the GOP line than the Independence Party line, but in close races it might make a difference.

I know quite a few people who are fully against the system of Fusion Voting that we have here in NY but I'm generally supportive of it. This new policy will likely kill off third party ballot access (the Conservative Party being the one exception at least for now).

 

[spat]

For statewide races I'd be happy if we even had a second party.

 

[camper4lyfe]

Sounds to me like someone's feeling threatened and feel they need to change the rules in the middle of the game.