Jerry Goldfeder has this column in CityLand, advocating move to ease ballot access for voters with improvements in New York state election law “New York City Legal Blog Publishes Column Advocating Easier Ballot Access for New York.”  From Ballot Access News:

Jerry Goldfeder is one of the leading experts on New York election law and has this column in CityLand, advocating improvements in New York state election law. He calls for leaders to ease ballot access laws to allow more to vote. He also calls for easing the restrictive law that does not permit voters to change parties within eleven months of a primary. This is by far the most restrictive such law in the nation.

Unfortunately, Goldfeder did not call for improving New York ballot format. New York has the nation’s most confusing ballot, followed closely by the ballot used in most counties in New Jersey. Both New York and New Jersey ballots hide “unimportant” candidates in far corners of the ballot, where many voters don’t even notice their names. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.