You can be the change New York is waiting for in 2024!
There has been a narrative derived from corporate media framing New York State as a deep blue state in terms of election outcomes. The question that is never asked “Is this true for the entire state?
Pundits will “predict” the election outcomes purporting most people in NY will vote for the Democrat candidates. But do the actual numbers / election outcomes support this narrative the media is promulgating? The final numbers will shock you.
Let’s look at this narrative in a numbers comparison to see if there is validity to it.
For this purpose, we will first pull numbers from the most recent major statewide election
The democrat candidate won the race with 51% of the votes cast. Not the total population of the state. What does this mean in terms of numbers? The majority of eligible registered voters across the state did not come out to vote. According to the NY State Board of Elections website, the 2022 election New York State results: 6.1 million or 51% of active registered voters did not vote. The Democrat candidate received only 26.9% or 3,140,415 of the votes cast while the Republican candidate received 22% or 2,762,581 of the votes cast. (Board of Elections, March 2024)
New York State is being governed based on a minority vote, not the majority vote. This image here is a view by county of the votes cast for 2022:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-new-york.html
Latest results from Dec. 16, 2022
BuffaloRochesterSyracuseAlbanyNew York City
In comparison, the 2020 total number who voted: 8,690,614 (https://results.elections.ny.gov/contest/308) which is 70% of the 12,363,072 active registered voters. There are 1,192,475 inactive registered voters for a total of 13,555,547 registered voters in New York State in 2020. (https://elections.ny.gov/enrollment-county).
The results are depicted in this image here:
https://cehsrold.blob.core.windows.net/new-york-election-results-2020-by-county.html
You can see for yourself that a color narrative is not always a true depiction of the results.
The results prove New York is governed by a super majority that only won the majority of the minority vote!
You have the ability to change not only the narrative, but the direction of policy in our state. This election season you can:
§ Register friends, family and neighbors;
§ Help anyone who needs a ride to the polling locations;
§ Work for the Board of Elections as a poll worker;
§ Volunteer as a poll watcher;
§ Learn to use apps to contact low propensity voters (TP Action)
§ Learn the VoterAlert web-based app from True The Vote
§ Join the team at Project Civica to learn more and be active in your community
Be part of the election process. Be The Change.
Let’s prove that a narrative will not defeat New York. Let’s prove we truly are a state of independent, strong-minded individuals that that will vote for the future of our children and our state.
By Stephanie Liggio, Project Civica Co-Founder
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