Trainer Cara Castronuova, who appeared on Season 11 of the The Biggest Loser, is suing the New York State Board of Elections for allegedly preventing her and others from writing her name in as a Republican challenger to incumbent Sen.
Kirsten Gillibrand. Castronuova was initially kept off the GOP ballot when party leaders challenged the signatures she submitted in April to have her name appear on the ballot.
A judge said in May that voters could write in her name. But there was no Republican primary in the race, and thus, no ballots for the party’s candidates. “After arguing for my right to legally vote by write-in on an affidavit ballot for the Republican candidate of my choice, I was handed a primary affidavit ballot for Democrats,” voter Phil Orenstein of Queens Village said in court papers, as reported by the New York Post. “I believe my vote will not be counted, and my sacred right to vote for the candidate of my choice was violated.” Castronuova also joined the Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit. “New Yorkers are fed up with the good old boys club controlling coronated candidates like puppets on a string.
I hope this is a message to the GOP establishment that they are a disgrace for robbing their own voters of a choice in candidates and interfering in fair and free elections by unconstitutionally blocking ballot access for candidates that are not their puppets,” she said.
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