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New Yorkers have made history this election cycle, with early turnout numbers shattering records across the state. Don't forget: When you vote or return your ballot, will you commit to voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the Working Families Party line on your ballot?
We need to do everything we can to preserve progressive power in New York, and the Working Families Party is doing some of the most important progressive organizing in the state—but their future may be in danger.
That's why we're asking MoveOn members in New York to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the Working Families Party line tomorrow. And if you're one of the million New Yorkers who have already casted a ballot, then use this opportunity to remind your friends to do so.
Check out our message below for the full context.
Thanks for all you do.
–Mohammad
Dear MoveOn member,
We all need to cast our votes this year to defeat Trump and his Republican enablers and fuel a massive blue wave to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with a commanding national popular majority as well as Electoral College victory.
How do you do this? By voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the Working Families Party line on your ballot—whether you're voting in person or by mail. Your vote on the WFP line counts toward Biden and Harris's totals, the same as if you voted on the Democratic line. But it counts extra—because a vote on the WFP line sends a signal that you are voting specifically on the issues the WFP works tirelessly to advance, like affordable housing, unemployment relief, raising the minimum wage, and more. That means, after all of the votes have been counted, your vote has extra impact when it comes to holding our elected officials to the promises and commitments they make during election season.
Can we count on you to vote on the Working Families Party line for Biden and Harris?
Another critical reason to vote on the WFP line is that the WFP needs 130,000 votes to maintain its ballot line—one major source of its progressive power—for the next four years. Maintaining a line on the ballot is crucial, and it means that the WFP has extra power as it pushes a bold, progressive agenda. But recently, New York has made it harder for third parties to maintain ballot access, raising the total votes needed from 50,000 to 130,000!1 That makes the WFP's job harder. But the WFP is familiar with hard work.
In 2018, the WFP helped back a series of progressive challengers to throw out conservative Democrats who had caucused with Republicans—delivering a real Democratic majority in the state Senate. And since then, the New York State Senate has developed into one of the most progressive state legislatures in the country and has passed campaign finance reform laws, gun control regulation, expanded workers' rights, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.2
The WFP is continuing to fight for more funding for our schools, additional rights for immigrants, protections for renters, and for the richest New Yorkers to pay their fair share.
And over the next 14 days, the most critical step you can take to help in these fights in New York is to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the WFP line—whether you vote on Election Day, vote early in person, or are voting by mail.
Please click here to commit to voting WFP in 2020—and make your vote even more powerful!
Thanks for all you do.
–Justin, Chrissy, Mohammad, Arvin, and the rest of the team
P.S. Check out MoveOn.org/Voting to look up information around your voter registration status, early voting locations, and ballot dropoff locations.
Sources:
1. "Democrats' Plan Will Suppress Third Parties in New York," The New York Times, November 25, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/145436?t=8&akid=282923%2E10220574%2ESofWYq
2. "A Profound Democratic Shift in New York: 'We Seized the Moment,'" The New York Times, June 22, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/145437?t=10&akid=282923%2E10220574%2ESofWYq
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