{"id":120328,"date":"2022-05-13T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120328"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:15:46","slug":"letters-seeks-support-for-122nd-assembly-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=120328","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS: Seeks support for 122nd Assembly District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To the Editor:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voter registrations are changing quickly. Just five years ago, the Republican Party registration outnumbered the no-party registration by 250,000. But in five short years, the no-party registrations have gone way up and now outnumber the Republicans. The Democratic registration lost ground, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a significant change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What has not changed are the requirements for a no-party candidate to be on the ballot \u2013 an independent candidate must secure three times more petition signatures than a Democrat or Republican. So, although voter preferences are changing, evident by registration trends, the requirements to be on the ballot remain the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This trend is a signal to our political leaders that changes are needed to ensure candidates, no matter the party, get a fair shot at being on the ballot. Changes made in other states, such as open primaries, ranked-choice voting and parity of signature requirements to be on the ballot, should all be considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am running to represent the 122nd Assembly District and will be on the ballot as a Democrat, but that is not enough. My goal is to represent everyone and to include as many people in the process before election day, so I will be passing an independent nominating petition as well \u2013 referred to as \u201cParty for a Day.\u201d This petition is often used by no-party candidates. The name of my party for the election is Common Sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need action on common sense solutions that address the problems of our generation, and in order to succeed we need more people engaged in the political process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dan Buttermann, Oneonta<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Voter registrations are changing quickly. Just five years ago, the Republican Party registration outnumbered the no-party registration by 250,000. But in five short years, the no-party registrations have gone way up and now outnumber the Republicans. The Democratic registration lost ground, too. This is a significant change. What has not changed are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}