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Signature Snafu Keeps WFP Off November Ballots in Most Races

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 7/16/21

The Working Families Party, whose energy and resourcefulness kept it from losing its ballot line last year under an upgraded voting requirement some supporters charged was an attempt by Governor Cuomo to wipe it out, may be largely shut out of this November's city races by two glaring technicalities.

Unless the party can get a court ruling forcing the city Board of Elections to reconsider its position, the WFP, after supporting numerous winning candidates in the recent Democratic primaries, led by the party's nominee for City Comptroller, Brad Lander, won't have nearly two dozen of them on its line in the November general election.

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