51 Cited authorities

  1. Anderson v. Celebrezze

    460 U.S. 780 (1983)   Cited 1,544 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Ohio statute requiring independent candidates to file statements of candidacy by March to appear on November ballot was unconstitutional
  2. Reynolds v. Sims

    377 U.S. 533 (1964)   Cited 2,848 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "the Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis"
  3. N. A. A. C. P. v. Alabama

    357 U.S. 449 (1958)   Cited 1,970 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[c]ompelled disclosure of membership in an organization engaged in advocacy of particular beliefs" may violate the First Amendment
  4. Bullock v. Carter

    405 U.S. 134 (1972)   Cited 973 times
    Holding high filing fees collected to finance primary elections unconstitutional
  5. Shelton v. Tucker

    364 U.S. 479 (1960)   Cited 1,191 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that disclosure of every organization teachers had joined in the previous five years was not rationally related to the State's interest in determining their fitness and competency
  6. Wesberry v. Sanders

    376 U.S. 1 (1964)   Cited 862 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “as nearly as is practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's”
  7. Smith v. Allwright

    321 U.S. 649 (1944)   Cited 606 times
    Holding that resolution restricting ability to vote in Democratic Party primaries to "all white citizens of the State of Texas who are qualified to vote under the Constitution and laws of the State" violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
  8. Green Party of New York State v. New York State Bd. of Elections

    389 F.3d 411 (2d Cir. 2004)   Cited 81 times
    Finding that plaintiffs had "satisfied the [irreparable harm] prong of the test by alleging" that aspects of a voter enrollment program violated "their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to express their political beliefs, to associate with one another as a political party, and to equal protection of the law"
  9. Evergreen Ass'n, Inc. v. Schneiderman

    153 A.D.3d 87 (N.Y. App. Div. 2017)   Cited 10 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In Matter of Evergreen Assn., Inc. v. Schneiderman, 153 A.D.3d 87, 97, 54 N.Y.S.3d 135 (2d Dept. 2017), the Second Department determined that the Attorney General is authorized to serve an investigative subpoena pursuant to Executive Law § 63 (12).
  10. Matter of Donnelly v. McNab

    83 A.D.2d 896 (N.Y. App. Div. 1981)   Cited 47 times

    August 28, 1981 In a proceeding to, inter alia, validate petitions designating the petitioners as candidates in the Republican Party Primary Election to be held on September 10, 1981, for the party position of County Committee Member from various election districts, Town of Babylon, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Gerard, J.), entered August 20, 1981, which, inter alia, granted the application. Judgment affirmed, without costs or disbursements. The identification

  11. Section 6-132 - Designating petition; form

    N.Y. Elec. Law § 6-132   Cited 288 times
    Designating petitions
  12. Section 6-154 - Nominations and designations; objections to

    N.Y. Elec. Law § 6-154   Cited 166 times

    1. Any petition or certificate filed with the officer or board charged with the duty of receiving it shall be presumptively valid if it is in proper form and appears to bear the requisite number of signatures, authenticated in a manner prescribed by this chapter. 2. Written objections to any certificate of designation or nomination or to a nominating or designating petition or a petition for opportunity to ballot for public office or to a certificate of acceptance, a certificate of authorization

  13. Section 2-102 - State committee; creation

    N.Y. Elec. Law § 2-102   Cited 16 times

    1. The members of the state committee of each party shall be elected from such units of representation as the state committee shall by rule provide. The number of members representing each unit may vary, but each member shall be entitled to an equal vote within his unit. Each member of the state committee shall be entitled to cast one vote unless the rules of the party shall provide otherwise. 2. Each member shall be, at the time of his election and continuously thereafter, an enrolled member of

  14. Section 6-100 - Nominations and designations; generally

    N.Y. Elec. Law § 6-100   Cited 7 times

    Nomination and designation of candidates for election to public office or party position are governed by this article. N.Y. Elec. Law § 6-100 Amended by New York Laws 2020, ch. 142,Sec. 1, eff. 8/21/2020, exp. 12/31/2020. Amended by New York Laws 2019, ch. 55,Sec. CCC-3, eff. 4/12/2021 or five days after the date of certification by the state board of elections that the information technology infrastructure to substantially implement this act is functional.

  15. Section 6215.6 - Construction of rules; substantial compliance

    N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 6215.6   Cited 18 times

    (a) Except as specifically set forth herein, these rules shall be liberally construed and technical defects shall be disregarded where there has been substantial compliance and where a strict construction is not required for the prevention of fraud. (b) The failure to obtain an identification number or inscribe an identification number on one or more petitions or petition volumes shall not render any such petition or petition volume invalid. The officer or board receiving such petition or petition