Glens Falls Post Star: "Let third party on ballot"

Conservative Party activists have come close to pushing third-party Libertarian candidate Eric Sundwall off the March 31st special election ballot.

(Candidate Jim Tedisco is running on the Conservative line, but his campaign has disavowed any involvement in the effort.)

Now, the Glens Falls Post-Star is urging elections officials to allow Sundwall to take part in the democratic process.

As long as Sundwall or any other candidate doesn’t obtain signatures from a graveyard, what is the reason for challenging petitions at all?

The answer is simple. Fear.

Fear that citizens might exercise the democratic process to select another candidate they feel might do a better job representing them.

Fear that their positions are too weak or too far out of sync with enough voters that even a small challenge will be enough to derail their candidacies.

Read the entire editorial here.