Justice tosses GOP effort to oust Albany Working Families endorsement slate
ALBANY — State Supreme Court Justice Scott J. Delconte dismissed a Republican-led court effort to invalidate the endorsement slate of the Albany County Working Families Party.
The WFP is a progressive party that often overlaps with candidates who also run as Democrats in the state. In New York, candidates are allowed to appear on more than one party line. Republicans around the Capital Region have engaged in some creative electoral tactics surrounding the WFP, attempting to co-opt their ballot line as their own.
In that vein, Republicans have sued in a number of counties to try to deny Democrats from being listed as WFP-endorsed candidates on the ballot. In Albany County, they argued that the process used by the party officials to sign documents electronically with a notary was improper.
Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone dismissed a suit in Saratoga County, filed by former Republicans who recently switched their affiliation to the third party, because their attorney failed to name the Working Families Party in the court filing.
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