Mark Green assails Andrew Cuomo for taking that nomination and not supporting the idea of all the other candidates to also be placed on the ballot without the need for petitioning.
Seriously, ballot access is a joke in this state, and there should be a much lower threshold than 25%; getting 5% of the state delegates’ vote is enough proof that you’re a serious contender. You oughtn’t need to supplement those efforts with a hyper-technical petitioning process.
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