Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder was quoted in a Slate article about New York State’s election laws.
According to Jerry H. Goldfeder, an election lawyer and an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, the simplest answer is the state’s “extremely peculiar election laws.”
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Goldfeder said jumping races isn’t election fraud in the legal sense of the term but that the congressman’s logic makes sense. “He wants to avoid a fraud on the voters,” Goldfeder told Slate. “He wants to avoid the charade of running for another office [that he doesn’t want].” Goldfeder added that he sees no reason to suspect Crowley is plotting a third-party challenge against Ocasio-Cortez. “He’s endorsed her; he’s going to work for her,” Goldfeder said. “The district is going to elect her.”