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The ‘late scratch’ is difficult in New York races

One of the most confounding problems in New York’s election law at this point in the campaign season has to do with a candidate or party trying to get the candidate's name off a ballot in the final run-up to Election Day.

The three established ways of making the switch are: death, which is not a desirable option; or nomination to a judgeship, which involves party manipulations; or moving out of state, which can be very inconvenient, to say the least.

Much has been written about the prospect of anti-Zohran Mamdani campaigns colluding to stop the democratic socialist from being elected mayor in the fall. Mayor Eric Adams isn’t budging, ex-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is still running, and so is Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.

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