This thing is a moving target, here’s a quick update to flesh it out a bit more. This is from the Guardian:
Sanders Campaign Slams NY Decision to Cancel Primary
by Sam Levine
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign tore into the New York state board of elections on Monday after it decided to remove the senator from the ballot for the state’s June 23 election, the Guardian’s Sam Levin reports.
The state’s two Democratic election commissioners voted to remove Sanders on Monday, relying on a new provision in state law that allows the board to remove a candidate who actively suspends their campaign. Sanders had urged the board to let him remain on the ballot and had been hoping to gather delegates to gain sway over the party’s platform. His presence on the ballot also may have increased turnout in down ballot primary races.
No one asked New York to cancel the election. The DNC didn’t request it. The Biden campaign didn’t request it. And our campaign communicated that we wanted to remain on the ballot,” Jeff Weaver, a senior Sanders adviser said in a statement. “New York has clearly violated its approved delegate selection plan. If this is not remedied, New York should lose all its delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention.”
New York has also long had extremely restrictive voting policies - it had no early voting until last year - and Weaver called on Democrats to investigate “New York’s checkered pattern of voter disenfranchisement.”
The move comes as states are scrambling to figure out how to allow people to vote while protecting their health in the Covid-19 pandemic. New York governor Andrew Cuomo recently issued an executive order requiring the state to send an absentee ballot application to every registered voter in the state.
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a top Sanders surrogate, called the decision “completely wrong.”