2006 New York Code - Rights, privileges and franchise secured; uncontested primary elections.

 
                                  ARTICLE I
 
                               Bill of Rights
 
    Section 1. No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived
  of  any  of  the  rights  or  privileges secured to any citizen thereof,
  unless by the law of the land, or the judgment  of  his  or  her  peers,
  except  that  the legislature may provide that there shall be no primary
  election held to nominate candidates  for  public  office  or  to  elect
  persons  to  party  positions  for any political party or parties in any
  unit of representation of  the  state  from  which  such  candidates  or
  persons  are  nominated  or  elected  whenever  there  is  no contest or
  contests for such nominations  or  election  as  may  be  prescribed  by
  general law.