While Mr. Levy won more than 28 percent of the vote, usually enough to earn a candidate an automatic spot on the primary ballot, his recent switch of party affiliation meant that he needed to win a majority in a special second round of voting to gain a place on the ballot.
A June 23 profile of Ms. McFarland, by Cindy Adams in The New York Post, said that the candidate earned a master's at M.I.T.
However, the race went to a runoff since neither candidate earned a majority. .
Those lines proved so friendly to Republicans that, in 2012, Democratic assembly candidates earned a hundred and seventy-four thousand more votes than Republicans, but the G.O.P. won sixty of the ninety-nine seats.
Without the preclearance process, voter ID laws and gerrymandering schemes become easier to implement -- a powerful temptation for a party that kept its grip on the House even though its candidates earned a million fewer votes nationwide than the Democrats in 2012.
IN AN ordinary American presidential election, a candidate who had earned a fortune in business and then paid an absurdly low tax rate would barely raise eyebrows.
U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez earned a total of $156,674 in 2015 and paid $36,306 in federal and state income taxes, according to the Orange County congresswoman's 2015 tax returns.
(To earn election, a candidate must get 14 of the 18 votes. Voters can cast a ballot for no more than four players).
"We have a rota of 60 candidates who haven't earned a penny in national politics, and I will make sure they'll all get a go on the gravy train before 2019".
To win, a candidate must earn a majority of the votes cast.
