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2 parties' power over NY voting unchecked

Charlie Rangel after winning re-election in New York

Photo credit: Getty Images | Charlie Rangel after winning re-election in New York City. (June 26, 2012)

Dan Janison

Melville. N.Y. Tuesday January 26, 2010. Daniel Janison, Dan Janison

Dan Janison has been a reporter at Newsday for 10

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The general quality of campaign-law enforcement has long earned terrible reviews from New York State's good-government groups. But given the power over running elections that state law grants the major parties, it is hard to see how systemic reform might come about any time soon.

Bill Mahoney, research coordinator of the New York Public Interest Research Group, is among those who push for...

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