NY-24: Judge blocks Dana Balter from third-party ballot line in campaign for Congress

[RandySF]

A judge’s ruling Friday blocked Dana Balter from gaining a third-party ballot line in her campaign for Congress against Rep. John Katko and could keep a candidate in the race who has no interest in running.

The Working Families Party had given its nomination to Syracuse lawyer Steve Williams before the Democratic primary election between Balter and Francis Conole.

Williams was viewed as a placeholder for the Democratic nominee. After Balter won the Democratic primary on June 23, the Working Families Party decided to give her its ballot line.

To legally remove Williams from the ballot under New York election law, the party nominated him to run on the ballot for a state Supreme Court justice’s seat in Queens.

But that move was challenged by Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey and Katko supporters.

In court filings, the Republicans claimed the Working Families Party did not follow rules to have a quorum of its members present for a judicial convention in which Williams was nominated.



https://www.syracuse.com/politics/cny/2020/09/judge-blocks-dana-balter-from-third-party-ballot-line-in-campaign-for-congress.html

[Crunchy Frog]

1. Fuck Katko.

[ARPad95]

2. Interestingly, she would have beat him last time if both had run on single-party line. Hope this

backfires on Katko big time. He rarely speaks out against Trump and tries to claim he's so bipartisan. BS!