Article: Learning to be Like the Two Major Parties.(Greens/Green Party of New York State)(Brief Article)

Winning a ballot line in 1999 (thanks to the candidacy of Grandpa Al Lewis!) required the Greens/Green Party of New York State to file official party rules with the NY Board of Elections (BOE), and to elect a state committee for the purpose of filing candidates with the BOE. Fearful that such a committee would replace the traditional decision-making body of locals (the Assembly), the Assembly voted to file a skeletal set of rules with the BOE and to have the state committee's function be only to file candidates with the BOE. This differs dramatically from the major parties, whose state committees virtually control their parties from the top down.

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