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Volunteers petitioning (photo: @INDBrooklyn)
Today — Tuesday, March 2, 2021 — thousands of people are taking to the streets across the five boroughs. Armed with facemasks, gloves, hand sanitizer, more pens than you can imagine, and stacks of inconveniently-long papers, these determined New Yorkers have made the decision to participate in our democratic system by collecting petition signatures to help get candidates on the ballot.
Many of them, however, did not make this decision of their own volition. Instead, they were given an ultimatum by our
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