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NY Independence Party ready for fightDemocrat and Chronicle (November 22, 2002) — Fresh off its largest vote total in its short history, the state Independence Party wants to change state law to allow millions of unaffiliated voters to vote in the party’s primaries. Election law says someone must be a member of a party to participate in a primary, but Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay said he wants to challenge the process, making it legal for a voter not registered with a party to vote for candidates in primaries, as many states have done. There are 2.3 million unaffiliated voters in New York. B. Thomas Golisano, the Rochester-area billionaire and president of Paychex Inc., received about 15 percent of the vote as the party’s gubernatorial candidate this month -- nearly double the level of four years ago. “With this extraordinary level of achievement, I want to immediately go to work on elevating our role in New York state politics and increasing the visibility and leverage of our base -- the independent voter,” MacKay said. The initiative must be approved by the party’s state committee at its February meeting, then the issue would probably go to court.
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