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BY DAN RIVOLI
Primary season kicks off with early voting on Saturday for presidential candidates, in contests that are already essentially over, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have already secured their delegates. But if there is any question that’s left for voters to answer, it’s how much discontent there is for Biden and his handling of the Israel-Gaza war. Left-wing and socialist groups have endorsed a Leave It Blank campaign, which asks voters to turn in blank ballots to protest. Unlike other states, there is no “uncommitted” line on the ballot in New York.
“In a sense, it’s frustrating in the same way that New York elections are often frustrating, with a lot of structural things that lead to really low voter turnout,” Alicia Singham Goodwin, political director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, which is instructing members to vote with blank ballots. “It’s still an important way to flex our muscle in the same language that the president and Democratic party understand, which is primary elections.”