The Bernie Sanders camp is urging the DNC Rules & Bylaws committee to consider sanctions against NY if Gov. Cuomo doesn’t sign a bill sitting on his desk that would make it easier to switch parties to vote in a primary, as recommended by the party’s Unity & Reform Commission. pic.twitter.com/1mEZmukFNB— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) September 19, 2019
New York state has the most byzantine and opaque requirements for party registration in the nation.
This has clearly been done to ensure that the party bosses have no accountability.
BTW, it’s not just the Sanders campaign that has made this observation, so has the Brennan Center:
Clumsily designed ballots. An antiquated registration process. Confusing deadlines and outdated laws. Long lines and no early voting. New York state — caricatured as a bastion of progressive politics — has some of the most retrograde voting laws and practices in the nation. Reports of dysfunction from Thursday’s primary only add to the evidence: New York is disenfranchising its citizens.
We won’t see any sanctions, but we should.