Complex sentence: Because Golisano received more than 50,000 votes each time, the party was each time guaranteed an automatic ballot line for the following four years and has enjoyed the third line on the ballot continuously since the end of the 1998 gubernatorial election cycle.
Split into simpler sentences: Because Golisano received more than 50,000 votes each time, the party was guaranteed an automatic ballot line for the following four years. It has enjoyed the third line on the ballot continuously since the end of the 1998 gubernatorial election cycle.