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Impact Of Ranked Voting On NYC’s Orthodox Jewish Voting Bloc

March 16, 2021 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Impact Of Ranked Voting On NYC’s Orthodox Jewish Voting BlocThere was an interesting new post on the subject of ranked voting written by Jacob Kornbluh and published Forward. Take a look at this excerpt:

Andrew Yang promised he would not take action on secular education in yeshivas. Eric Adams visited a Brooklyn yeshiva to learn about how it teaches science, math and English. Ray McGuire hosted a roundtable with rabbis in which he boasted about his comfort level praying at the Western Wall.

These are just a few examples of the pointed outreach that leading candidates in the race for mayor of New York have been making to court the city’s Orthodox Jews, which historically have been an influential voting bloc in local elections.

Experts estimate that New York’s 1.1 million Jews make up about 20% of the voters in the city’s Democratic primaries. Historically, they have proved a powerful and even decisive factor in mayoral elections, particularly the approximately 80,000 voters in Brooklyn’s Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox communities, where rabbinic dictates about ballot choices can lead to a reliable bloc of votes.

Read the full article here. Also read this article by Adrian Tawfik on Iraqi-Jewish history.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American Local Elections, Election Methods, Jewish People, Minority Voting Rights, New York City and State Elections, Religion and Democracy

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