Rockefeller v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. “New York law prohibits a person from signing petitions for more than one candidate and invalidates any signatures given after the first. See N.Y. Elec. Law § 6-134 (5). As the petitioning phase proceeds, the number of people still available to sign petitions decreases and the difficulty in finding them increases. The thirty-seven day petition-gathering period is, on its face, relatively short and, making matters worse, the petitioning phase now falls during the period from Thanksgiving to just after New Year’s Day. As a result, petition gatherers were hampered by holidays and vacations, short days, and winter storms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 411 F. Supp. 2d 212 - López Torres v. New York State Board of Elections

2. “the 5%/1250 requirement is itself onerous in comparison with other states even without the very technical rules concerning the validation and presentation of the signatures that require as a practical matter the collection of at least 140% of the requisite number of signatures.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Irving A. Gelb v. The Board Of Elections Of The City Of New York

3. “th[e] alternative [0.5%/1000] requirement by its very existence demonstrates that the 5%/1250 scheme is unnecessary to satisfy [ ] New York's interest in seeing that no candidate be on the ballot without substantial public support,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Prestia v. O'Connor