• CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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        3 days ago

        I hope they do, only 64,000 people voted in Buffalo, hated dems won’t win through a write-in campaign in a city as massive and diverse as New York, Zohran’s 50,000 strong door knocking army would obliterate them

      • prole [any, any]@hexbear.net
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        I’m not familiar with this one, but I was reading about it just now and holy shit how did they even do that? Does write in not mean what I think it means? They actually got that many people to write someone’s name down and not fill in a bubble or whatever? I always figured that shit was just about impossible to do

        • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          It helped that the former mayor gave out stamps with his name on them so people could just stamp his name on the ballot as a write-in. He also worked with a member of a far-right group, the police union, libertarians, and republican officials.