BREAKING: Judge Denies Request To Immediately Open Up New York Primary To Independent Voters
Source: Thinkprogress
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Independent New York voters who were hoping to gain the right to vote in the state’s closed primary received some disappointing news from a federal judge on Tuesday, when she denied a request for a temporary restraining order that would have opened up New York’s primary election to all voters, regardless of party affiliation.
District Judge Joanna Seybert denied the request, and delayed a hearing on an emergency lawsuit filed Monday, which sought to open the state’s closed primary so that New York’s 3.2 million independents could cast a ballot on Tuesday.
Filed by the group Election Protection USA, the lawsuit alleged that many New York voter registrations were being purged from the rolls, and that some voters’ party affiliations were being changed without explanation.
Jordan Chariton, a reporter for The Young Turks, reported on Twitter that the lawsuit was delayed because the plaintiffs essentially named the wrong defendants. Instead of the New York state Board of Elections, Seybert reportedly said the lawsuit should be challenging each individual county’s board of the elections, because they are responsible for what happens with voter registrations.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/19/3770513/judge-decision-emergency-lawsuit-new-york-primary/
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*BREAKING: New York Judge Rules For Voters In Last Minute Primary Case*, April 19, 2016Nathaniel Downes
New York began disenfranchising millions of its citizens due to a draconian voter registration law. As a result, an emergency lawsuit (CV-16 1892) was filed in Federal District Court Monday by Election Justice USA to enable both independents and newly registered Democrats to vote in the primary. This law resulted in many people whom have been registered as Democrats were scrubbed from voter rolls without sufficient notice. The loss was so large in one borough of New York City that Mayor deBlasio raised the issue in an interview with WYNC:
"This number surprises me. I admit that Brooklyn has had a lot of transient population – that’s obvious. Lot of people moving in, lot of people moving out. That might account for some of it. But I’m confused since so many people have moved in, that the number would move that much in the negative direction."
On top of these problems, reports are coming in of New York voters facing broken and malfunctioning machines, resulting in long lines. Add to it the usual partisan conflicts in a hotly contested primary, nobody can claim that New York’s primary is not important.
Now the court has declined to dismiss the case, leaving the issue open for people to now petition for their vote to be accepted. This authorizes those who were denied access to the polls to cast their vote using a provisional ballot, due to the late stage of this decision. The judge also ruled that all county election offices must appear before the court within 60 days to defend their enrollment process. This order does not, however, give people who choose not to join a particular political party the opportunity to participate, leaving it only a partial answer to the issue.
For a more permanent solution, the legislature in Albany is currently working on Assembly Bill A9661, which would turn the New York primary into a full open primary.
The nature of democracy is the principle of one person, one vote. However, as Tom Stoppard put it in his play “Jumpers”, “It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” By manipulating the numbers, by disenfranchising voters be it through closed primaries, voter ID laws or scrubbing election rolls, it undermines the principles upon which our nation was founded. The decision to enable people to vote in New York’s primary today is another victory for the forces of democracy.
http://reverbpress.com/politics/battlegrounds/breaking-new-york-judge-rules-voters-primary-case/
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**This is a big win for all New York voters! This means those who legitimately should have been allowed to vote will be able to submit affidavit ballots and have their votes count!** 
They sued the wrong defendants. The judge is letting the fools amend their complaint to try to get it right. But the voters ALWAYS had a right to vote via provisional ballot. That was not at issue in the litigation and there is NOTHING in the judge's order about that.
idea that the DNC has any power in how New York State runs its primaries?
Please proceed with your suit. 
The elections are just in charge of a small about, the rest is all the parties. I know that because I often call and chat with both the elections boards and the DNCs for each state. The election boards can give you a certain amount of information, but polices and such are all DNC and RNC. That is why the states have started defending closed elections, it is an easy way for them to save money since no one can really make a good excuse for a closed primary that is paid for by the 40% plus that are not in parties.
http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/can-new-york-change-to-open-primary-closed-election-voter-fraud-registration-party-changed-protest-rally/
But here, does this give you enough proof? Hope that cures you laughing fit.
on election day in Nov.
Of course, I'm sure NO ONE needs their votes anyway...
