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by throwawaysea 1952 days ago
> So you had Joe Biden as the nominee for the Democratic Party and then Joe Biden also listed as the nominee for the Working Families party.

I’m confused how this works. The candidate themselves doesn’t have to claim they are from a particular party to be listed as such? That seems wrong or misleading but what is the point? Is it some kind of hack to garner enough votes for a party to trigger some kind of funding?

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Parties don't get votes (at least in most elections), the candidates do. The candidates can be members of a party and may be endorsed by them. in NY it sounds like a party can endorse a non-member. This doesn't sound fundamentally wrong or misleading to me.