What's happening
This bill requires candidates for governor and lieutenant governor in New York to be nominated and appear on ballots jointly as a single ticket.
Why it matters
Reduces voter confusion and intra-party conflict. by ensuring that the governor and lieutenant governor candidates from each party run as a single ticket, avoiding situations where the two offices could be filled by individuals with opposing priorities or from rival party factions.
Strengthens party unity and campaign strategy. , as candidates for governor and lieutenant governor must coordinate their campaigns from the outset, presenting a unified message and platform to voters.
Limits voter choice in primaries. for those who may have preferred to mix and match gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial candidates from the same party, as it eliminates the option to vote for them separately.
Aligns New York’s process with federal and many other state practices. , providing consistency in how executive teams are elected and potentially streamlining the administrative aspects of ballot design and election management.
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Who cares
Party state committees
They would have to designate candidates for governor and lieutenant governor jointly by a single vote.
Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor
They would have to run as pairs for party designation, and pairs receiving at least 25 percent of a state committee ballot could demand placement on the primary ballot.
Enrolled party members circulating designating petitions
Their petitions for governor or lieutenant governor would be valid only if they jointly designate candidates for both offices.
Election officials and primary voters
Ballots would have to place jointly designated candidates together, with governor first, and provide a single joint vote for both offices.
Headline styles
Joint Governor Ticket Required
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
3 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to election law
- Referred to election law
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Joint Governor Ticket Required
In Senate Committee · Elections · Sponsor Joseph A. Griffo
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3596
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CAHILL, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the joint nomination of candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 5 of section 6-104 of the election law are amended to read as follows:
1. Party designation of a candidate for nomination for any office to be filled by the voters of the entire state shall be made by the state committee. Candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor shall be designated jointly by a single vote of such committee.
2. The state committee shall make a decision by majority vote. The person or persons receiving the majority vote shall be the party's designated candidate or pair of candidates for nomination, and all other persons or pairs of persons who shall have received twenty-five percent or more of the vote cast on any ballot shall have the right to make written demand, duly acknowledged, to the state board of elections that their names appear on the primary ballot as candidates for such nomination. Such demand shall be made not later than seven days after such meeting and may be withdrawn in the same manner within fourteen days after such meeting.
5. Enrolled members of the party may make other designations by petition for [a member] members of the same party. A petition designating a candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor shall be valid only if such petition jointly designates candidates for both such offices on such petition.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 7-114 of the election law is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(e) With respect to candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor, ballots shall be printed so that the names of candidates for both offices who were designated jointly shall appear in the same row or column, with the name of the candidate for governor appearing first and the ballot shall be so adjusted that both offices are voted for jointly and have but one designating letter or number.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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