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Electoral fusion in the United States

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fusion as a way to signal that their support for a major party candidate brought a meaningful number of voters to the candidate. Votes for fusion candidates were tallied first by party, then added together to produce the outcome. Argersinger argues that this helped ‘‘maintain a significant third party tradition by guaranteeing that dissenters’ votes could be more than symbolic protest’’. Fusion allowed minor parties to avoid the 'wasted vote' and 'spoiler' dilemmas that small parties face in a non-proportional voting system.
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secures both enough votes from members of his own party as well as enough write-in votes from members of the Republican Party, then electoral fusion occurs, and Bob will appear on the ballot as both a Republican and a Democrat. Similarly, a member of one party may lose their own party's nomination in a primary election but gain enough write-in votes from members of the opposing party to win that party's nomination. For example, in May 2023,
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to challenger Matt Dugan. However, although Zappala is a Democrat, Zappala received the requisite number (500 or more) of write-in votes from Republicans to appear as a Republican on the ballot in November 2023. Running on the ballot as a Republican, Zappala won the general election in November 2023,
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After the Civil War, agrarian interest groups and the political parties they founded continued to use fusion balloting to form alliances between third parties and the weaker of the two major parties, usually the Democrats in the West and Midwest. In the 19th and early 20th century, minor parties used
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line in local elections, and to back Democrats in statewide or national races where they did not have the capacity to field successful candidates. Given the presence of fusion in New York, the Greater New York Industrial Union Council (GNYIUC), the CIO's local labor federation in New York, formally
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ran a front page article declaring that the ALP held the balance of power in city and state politics. The importance of the ALP was demonstrated again in 1938 when the party provided the margin of victory for the Democratic candidate for Governor, and in 1940 when the ALP did the same for President
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political machine to support Franklin Roosevelt without voting for the Democratic Party. In its first showing at the polls, the party garnered a significant amount of the vote in New York City, but was not important with regard to Roosevelt's victory. In the 1937 election cycle, the ALP built on it
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against the Oregon Secretary of State claiming that modifications to the ballot design statute in 1995 once again required the state to list multiple nominating parties on the candidate's ballot line. The lawsuit gave rise to legislation to allow candidates to list up to three party labels after
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In Pennsylvania, fusion can occur when members of a party write in the name of a member of a different party in a primary election, and secure enough write-in votes to nominate that party's candidate. For example, if Bob Jones is running for school board in a primary election as a Democrat and
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for the Populists. This election led to the downfall of the Populist Party, especially in Southern states (such as Watson's Georgia, as well as North Carolina and Tennessee) where the Populist party had engaged in electoral fusion or other alliances with Republicans against the dominant
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wrote: "Fusion voting gives voters a chance to support a major candidate while registering their unhappiness with that candidate's party. A cross-endorsement from a smaller party like the Women's Equality Party can also help inform voters about where candidates stand on certain issues".
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Roosevelt. In the 1944 presidential election, fusion provided CIO unions in New York an opportunity to build and back a labor party, an uncommon occurrence in the United States. Labor leaders knew that fusion permitted them to field candidates and win elections on the
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Electoral fusion was once widespread in the United States; however, as of 2024, it remains legal and common only in New York and Connecticut. It was once legal in every state and credited by advocates as being instrumental in enabling major democratic advances.
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for president, instead of using fusion to back President Truman. This led to internal conflicts within the CIO and ultimately contributed to the decision by the National CIO to revoke the charter of the GNYIUC, thereby ending its relationship with the ALP.
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cross-nominated Roosevelt, fusing with the ALP. Roosevelt won the state of New York in each election, but in 1940 and 1944 he would not have won New York without the support of votes gained via the fusion parties and their voters.
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as their candidate for President of the United States: "If was to stand any chance at all against Grant, it must avoid putting up a candidate of its own who would merely split the opposition vote. It must take Greeley."
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In July 2019, the New York Legislature passed a budget bill that included the creation of a Public Campaign Financing Commission, which was given authority to investigate and create rules for
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each filed lawsuits against the state in response, alleging that the commission was a disguised attempt to end fusion voting and thus the existence of New York's third parties.
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was elected governor in 1886 and 1890 as a candidate of the Democratic and People's parties. In 1906, seven members of the Oregon House were also elected as candidates of the
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Most states banned fusion by the early 20th century. South Dakota banned the practice in 1999, Delaware banned it in 2011, and South Carolina banned it in 2022. In
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Electoral fusion is also known as fusion voting, cross endorsement, multiple party nomination, multi-party nomination, plural nomination, and ballot freedom.
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affiliated with the party making it the political arm of the New York CIO. This relationship would continue until 1948 when the GNYIUC opted to back
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Prior to 1958, Oregon practiced a form of fusion that required the state to list multiple nominating parties on the candidate's ballot line.
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to enact bans against fusion in the late nineteenth and early 20th century. In northern and western states, fusion was largely banned by
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Electoral fusion was once widespread in the United States, but as of 2024, it remains legal and common only in New York and
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in presidential years must receive either 130,000 votes or 2% of votes cast (whichever is greater) on that party's line.
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was nominated by both the Democratic Party and the Populist Party, albeit with different vice presidential candidates,
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past performance by electing members to the city council, and by delivering so many votes to Mayor LaGuardia that the
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their name. This bill passed both houses of the Oregon legislature during the 2009 legislative session. Governor
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parties. These and other abolitionist third parties cross-nominated major party candidates running under the
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Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy
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in Puerto Rico, the New Jersey Moderate Party, the Common Sense Party in Michigan and the
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Hale, William Harlan (1950). Horace Greeley: Voice of the People. Harper & Brothers.
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and either the Democratic or Republican parties. In 2008, a lawsuit was brought by the
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with two ballot labels by his name, as the nominee of both the Republican Party and the
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In 1936, labor leaders in New York City took advantage of fusion and founded the
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Liberty Power: Anstislavery third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics
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wrote: "Fusion is a response to the winner-take-all electoral system. It solves the “
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Party are attempting to use litigation to bring back fusion voting in their states.
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As of 2023, to obtain or maintain automatic ballot access, a party's candidate for
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The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics
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Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press
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permit it in certain elections, including but not limited to the
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is an arrangement where two or more U.S. political parties on a
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ruled that prohibiting electoral fusion does not violate the
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label, fusing more than one party behind a single candidate.
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Connecticut General Assembly Office of Legislative Research
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and the Democratic Party nominated the Liberal Republican
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FUSION: MULTIPLE PARTY NOMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES
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state legislator said: "We don't propose to allow the
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Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America
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