[EL] Check out N.Y. Lawmakers Charged in Plot to Buy Spot on Mayoral B...

[John Tanner]

It is more likely that absent fusion voting, voters would have abandoned
the liberal and conservative parties.  As one example, a 1976 law banning
fusion voting in Alabama led directly to the demise of the Alabama Freedom
Democratic Party: the national and state Democratic nominees could no
longer be on their ticket


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Goldfeder, Jerry H.
<jgoldfeder at stroock.com>wrote:

>  While Richard makes an excellent point, there is the positive side to
> fusion voting in New York:  without it, John Kennedy would not have carried
> New York in 1960, for example. ****
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On Behalf Of *Richard
> Winger
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:25 PM
> *To:* Trevor Potter; Ben Adler
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> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Check out N.Y. Lawmakers Charged in Plot to Buy Spot
> onMayoral B...****
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> I haven't read all the e-mails in this thread, so perhaps I missed
> something, but as far as I know, no one in this discussion has criticized
> the New York election law called Wilson-Pakula, and that law ought to be
> criticized, because it is the real cause of this scandal.
>
> When a state like New York permits fusion, then that state ought to let
> any candidate run in any party's primary, without the need for the
> candidate to beg permission from a handful of party officials.  The only
> reason the Wilson-Pakula law of 1947 was passed, as many other news sources
> have noted, was that Congressman Vito Marcantonio could not be defeated for
> Congress without the ability to keep him out of the Democratic and
> Republican primaries.  And even after the law went into effect in 1948 and
> kept him out of those primaries, he still got re-elected in November solely
> on the American Party line.  It is time to repeal the law.  Repealing the
> law would also decrease the tiny handful of people in New York state who
> control the Independence Party nominations process.
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