Third parties galore on 2014 ballot

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Matthew Hamilton

Albany

This summer, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino codified his opposition to the Common Core standards — by creating the Stop Common Core Party ballot line to run on.

His Democratic counterparts trumpeted their support for women's issues — by creating the Women's Equality Party.

While the two major-party standard-bearers in the race for governor, their running mates and a wealth of other candidates statewide have joined those fresh issue-based lines, the phenomenon of creating a spot on the ballot that will likely bring only a small number of votes is nothing new. Historically, pop-up third party lines often have garnered candidates no more than a couple hundred to a couple thousand votes.

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