[NativeNewYorker]

NY's arcane election laws punish the party of anyone who doesn't finish first or second. The top two parties get to staff and run lots of the election machinery, and future ballot position is determined by the last election cycles, so Dems would drop to the THIRD spot on the ballot, making it even harder for their, ahem, intellectually challenged partisans to locate them.

[hoosierpearl]

Does this mean that if Hitlery ran again for senator in 2006, she would be listed third on the ballot?

That would be interesting wouldn't it? Humiliation.