NYC Votes has installed six murals across Brooklyn and Manhattan to encourage people to vote, including this one at Bogart Street and Thames Street in Bushwick.
Photo courtesy of NYC Votes
NYC Votes, an initiative of the New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB), has installed six murals across Brooklyn and Manhattan to encourage New Yorkers to get out and vote in the upcoming April presidential primary election.
The murals, which feature bright and playful designs with bodega cats and pizza rats as well as a VOTE graphic in American Sign Language, are part of a citywide voter engagement campaign by the CFB — an independent city agency working to boost voter participation and ensure fairness, openness and inclusivity in local elections.
The effort to push New Yorkers to vote comes as thousands of voters in states like Michigan and Minnesota cast “uncommitted” votes in their states’ respective primaries in protest of the war in Gaza and the US’s involvement — particularly in response to President Joe Biden’s continued authorization of aid and arms to Israel.
The NYC votes campaign also acknowledges that this November’s presidential election will most likely see another square off between Biden and former president Donald Trump, which also could dissuade voters from participating.
“In a presidential cycle all but guaranteed to be a rematch of the last one, New Yorkers may be feeling less than energized to go vote,” a spokesperson from the CFB said in a statement. “These murals, positioned in high-traffic areas frequented by New Yorkers on the go, implore voters to consider what matters most to them in their daily lives – their kids, representation, change in their community – and show up for those reasons.”
The November 2020 presidential election saw a total of 3,047,263 New York City voters participate — even with the COVID-19 pandemic raging — with about 2.3 million people voting for Biden and over…
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