Back in the early 90's I was a state committee member of the Conservative party. I became uninvolved for two reasons, first, I needed time to raise my children. Second, I was first attracted to them because I was becoming disillusioned with the liberalism creeping into the Republican party(yes, even back then) and I liked the Conservative parties principles, unfortunetly after my involvement I came to find out that they were just a rubber stamp for Republican candidates. If a Republican was running for an office it was an extreme rarity for the Conservative party to put up a candidate. If no Republican was running they sometimes put a name on the ballot, but that was about it, a name on a ballot, campaigning at all was extremely rare.
In theory most of the parties principles are right, in practice though is something else.
Now remember, this was back in the early 90's that I was involved, have they changed since then, I do not know.
As far as I know though it is definetly not a neo-nazi, anti-semitic party though, far from it.
As for the ballot, parties do this because the number of votes determines your parties place on the ballot. On the voting machine's here in NY you will see the Democratic party listed first because they recieved the most votes in the Presidential race or the Governores race. Next will be the Republican party. Next, the party with the third most votes will be listed next so this was always a battle between third parties. It used to be the Liberal partry until the Conservative party displaced them, now I believe it is the Working Families Party. When you vote, look at the order the parties are listed on the machine, this will tell you the order of the amount of votes for that party in the previous Governors election.
If McCain is listed on the Conservative party line and you pull the lever there your vote for McCain WILL STILL COUNT! Even if you wrote in McCain your vote will still count.