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...recent op-ed by Nicholas F. B. Smyth ’05 (“Making Third Parties Matter,” May 3) is well intentioned but poorly informed...
...Smyth argues for a greater role for third parties in American politics. But he fundamentally misinterprets the role of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). He argues that, “[c]urrently, elections are supervised by the bipartisan Federal Election Commission” and that “the FEC keeps third party candidates out of elections.” This is simply not true. The FEC has no authority at all over state ballot access laws, that is, laws that determine which parties appear on the ballot. Nor does the FEC have authority over the manner of election...
...Smyth next briefly detours to specifically criticize me as a “problem” on the FEC. This is a curious detour, indeed, given that my 1991 article in the Harvard Journal of Legislation, “Judicial Protection of Ballot Access Rights,” remains one of the most important and oft-cited pieces of legal scholarship supporting the rights of third parties. I am almost certainly the biggest supporter of third parties on the commission. In the fall of 2000, during the dispute over which candidate, John Hagelin or Pat Buchanan, was entitled to government...
Nicholas F. B. Smyth ’05, a Crimson editor, is a first-year in Wigglesworth Hall...
Blake Jennelle ’04, Nicholas F. Smyth ’05, and Ben J.Toff...