ALBANY, N.Y. — As early voting gets underway in New York, the race for governor is also testing the political strength of two of the state’s most influential minor parties.
The Conservative and Working Families parties are backing opposing candidates in November, but both have something else at stake: maintaining their ballot status and demonstrating their influence over New York’s two major political parties.
Under New York’s fusion voting system, candidates can appear on multiple party lines. Votes cast on those lines are combined toward the candidate’s total, but the individual party-line results can also determine whether a smaller party retains
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