This was a very busy year for election law aficionados. Following time-honored tradition, we present some of the more interesting highlights of 2014:
‘Retroactive Residency?’ As was highly publicized, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo challenged his all-but-unknown Democratic Party challenger’s ballot status on the ground that she did not meet the state constitutional eligibility requirement of residing in New York for five continuous years prior to this year’s general election.1 It was his burden to meet by clear and convincing evidence, and he failed.2 The candidate, Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law professor, admitted on the stand that she filed income tax returns for 2009 in which she indicated that she resided in New York for zero months of the year, and for 2010 in which she claimed only 292 days of the year.3
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