The following fact sheet was released on October 17 by the Sare for Senate campaign and can be found at https://www.sareforsenate.com/fact_sheet_on_the_exclusion_blog
• Diane Sare is listed on the New York State ballot for November 8, 2022 election as a certified candidate for the position of U.S. Senator from New York;
• The Sare campaign gained this position by filing over 66,000 signatures of New York registered voters, gathered in six weeks, and spread throughout the number of of Congressional districts required by state election law;
• The Sare campaign achieved this goal after the New York State Legislature had passed changes in election law in 2020-21 to make the threshold for ballot access so difficult that, in their words, “only serious candidates with statewide support would gain a position on the ballot";
• Only the Sare campaign achieved this goal, with four other parties attempting to gather this number of legitimate signatures—triple the previous requirement from 15 to 45,000 signatures—failing in their attempts;
Despite all of the above, on Oct. 3rd, Spectrum News in New York, owned by Charter Communications, announced that they will hold a debate featuring Sare’s opponents—Sen. Chuck Schumer and TV personality Joe Pinion—but without Diane Sare. Clearly, this is meant to rig the vote by denying voters the right to know of Sare’s candidacy.
When contacted concerning this oversight, Spectrum’s New York State Political Director Bob Hardt, glibly explained that Sare would not be invited to join the debate with the rationale that the candidates had to have “enough support to receive an invitation.” He continued: “In this case, it would be whether a candidate achieved 15% of support in at least two polls. Ms. Sare did not meet that criteria in any of the polls conducted this election cycle ... Good luck ... Bob Hardt.”
But in the following polls: Marist College, Sienna College, and Emerson College, which polls are used for the criteria of whom to invite, voting for Diane Sare is not an option which voters are allowed to select! (see images below)
