NOMAS Syracuse Chapter | Voter Registration Event Flyer: November 2020

WHY DOES VOTING MATTER? It’s your constitutional right You can directly express your own interests for policy You can help decide who is in power to make decisions about issues you care about Young voters account for half of the voting population and have the lowest voter turnout

EVERY VOTE COUNTS! DEADLINES TO

REGISTER

IN NEW YORK STATE ONLINE REGISTRATION FRI, OCT. 9TH, 2020 REGISTRATION BY MAIL FRI, OCT. 9TH, 2020 IN-PERSON REGISTRATION FRI, OCT. 9TH, 2020

REQUEST A BALLOT

BY MAIL TUES, OCT. 27TH, 2020

EARLY VOTING BEGINS SAT, OCT. 24TH, 2020 TO SUN, NOV. 1ST, 2020

MAKE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE

TOP ISSUES FOR

VOTERS IN THE 2020 ELECTION FROM THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER:

Economy Health care Supreme Court appointments The coronavirus pandemic Violent crime Foreign policy Gun policy Race and ethnic inequality Immigration Economic inequality Climate change Abortion Trump supporters top two issues are the economy and crime, while Biden supporters are concerned about health care and the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/08/13/important-issues-in-the-2020-election/

ELECTION DAY IS

NOVEMBER 3RD, 2020 - did you know?

LINK TO FIND YOUR

POLLING PLACE

BY STATE: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/

ECONOMY

IMMIGRATION

GUNS AND SELF DEFENSE

LAWS AND JUSTICE

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COMPARING POLICIES AN

DONALD TRUMP

JOE BIDEN

JOE BIDEN - Focus on working-class families, small businesses, and communities - Focus on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic which has impacted the economy - Pushing domestic manufacturing (“made in America”) - Addressing the racial wealth gap to expand affordable housing and investing in Black, Latino, and Native American entrepreneurs

- Reverse family separation - End Trump’s asylum policies - End the “national security” to build a wall - Protect Dreamers (DACA) and their families - Rescind the travel and refugee bans - Restore and defend the naturalization process for green card holders - Reform the visa program for temporary workers in select industries

- “End gun violence epidemic” by banning the manufacturing and sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines, regulating their possession of existing assault weapons, and a buy-back program for assault weapons and high-capacity magazines - Requiring background checks for all gun sales - End the online sale of firearms and ammunitions - “Police and criminal justice reform” - Moving forward to redemption and rehabilitation - Addressing racial, gender, and class based disparities - “No one should be profiting off of our criminal justice system” - Invest in public defenders - End the crack and powder cocaine disparity - Decriminalize cannabis and automatically expunge all prior cannabis use convictions - Eliminate the death penalty - Plans to build on the ACA - Expanding coverage for low-income Americans - Emphasis on healthcare as a right but doesn’t support Medicare-for-all in replacement of the

DONALD TRUMP - Federally funded apprenticeship programs and on-the-job-training expansion - Emphasis on lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, creating more manufacturing industry jobs - Expanding GDP growth - Historic tax cuts and relief for “hard-working Americans”, specifically for middle-class families - Unemployment rate reached 3.6% (February) - Putting “Americans first” for jobs v. foreign workers

- Build a wall along the southern border to halt undocumented immigration, chain migration, and the visa lottery program.

- Lessen support for DACA - Sees undocumented immigration as a national emergency - Sanctuary cities are disqualified from receiving federal grants - Supports a merit-based immigration plan - Expanding ICE - Target MS-13 gang members - Making the removal of undocumented immigrants a priority - Uphold the second amendment for the “rights of privacy, free speech, and religious freedom.”

- Heavy emphasis in attacking international terrorism

- Expanding state and local law enforcement access to surplus equipment from the Defense Department - Focused on removing illegal guns off of “our” streets - Support free speech for all students at colleges/universities - Cracking down on violence against law enforcement officers - Promises to appoint judges who will uphold the constitution and rule of law - Improve health care for rural communities - Declared opioid abuse as a nationwide crises and public health emergency - Increasing generic drugs

ACA. - Protection of abortion rights andaccess to contraception - Expanding access to mental health care

- Affordable child-care and universal preschool - Increasing pay and benefits for educators - Investing in home and community based alternatives v. institutional care for people who are disabled - Increasing Pell grants, especially for middle class students - Free community college - Free public college tuition for families who make under $125,000 - Addressing how polluters disproportionately harm communities of color and low-income communities - “Science not fiction” when addressing climate change and human contribution to greenhouse effects - Working towards U.S. achieving a 100% clean energy economy by no later than 2050.

- Emphasis on environmental justice as a federal government concern - Stop the misinformation and “political theater” that has caused confusion and discrimination against Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals - Ensure that public health decisions are made public health professional and not politicians - Making tests widely available and free - Emphasis on supporting older adults, vulnerable individuals, and people with disabilities - Protect health care, first responders, assisted living staff and other frontline workers by granting effective PPE and comprehensive infectious disease exposure control plans - Accelerate the development of treatment and vaccines - Eliminating cost barriers for prevention and care

- Declaring fentanyl substances as a drug class under the controlled substances act which possession, importing, and distribution will be a criminal possession - Tax payer dollars should not support abortion coverage - Restrict Planned Parenthood funding - Aims to repeal the ACA - Signed nationwide act for age of purchasing tobacco and vaping products to 21 years old - Decreasing public reliance on social welfare programs - Approx. 7 million people had exited the food stamp program in January (pre-pandemic) - $400 million grant to end Veteran homelessness - School choice - Initiated the Every Student Succeeds Act - Year-round Pell grants to help during winter and summer breaks - New Title IX enforcement to combat sexual assault in k-12 public schools - Joining the 1 trillion trees initiative - Increased funding and aid for farmers who have been subjected to unfair trade practices - Promising to stick up for rural Americans by investing in rural electric infrastructure

- Extended the summer free meal program through the end of December to ensure all children have access to nutritious food - Extension of federal government partnership with pharmacies and grocery retail chains to continue testing - Increasing telehealth services for rural Americans - Increasing American production for essential medical supplies to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign producers - Announced the McKesson corporation to be the central distributor for the future COVID-19 vaccines and related supplies

HEALTH CARE

SOCIAL PROGRAMS

EDUCATION

EVIRONMENTAL POLICY

P ISSUE

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/about https://apnews.com/a2a8cdf5e01e5c3541f450318082

N ISSUE

https://joebiden.co

COVID PLANS

ND STANCES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES

WHO IS GOING TO BE ON THE NEW YORK BALLOT?

https://ballotpedia.org/Sample_Ballot_Lookup

PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Donald Trump - Republican Party (incumbent) Vice President Mike Pence Joe Biden - Democratic Party Senator Kamala Harris How Hawkins - Green Party Brock Pierce - Independence Party Jo Jorgensen - Libertarian Party

U.S. HOUSE NEW YORK DISTRICT 24:

IT’S THE TIME TO

EDUCATE

YOURSELF, SO YOU CAN

EDUCATE OTHERS

These congresswomen and men are responsible for serving for two years, introducing new bills and resolutions to their respective committees. The have the power to impeach federal officials and to elect the President in the case of an electoral college tie.

AND

John Katko - Republican Party (incumbent) Dana Balter - Democratic Party Steven Williams - Working Families Party

NEW YORK STATE SENATE DISTRICT 53:

These representatives primary responsibilities are to draft and approve changes to the laws of New York. They are a direct representation of the wills of the people.

Rachel May - Democratic Party (incumbent) Sam Rodgers - Republican Party Russell Penner - Libertarian Party

TO EXERCISE

YOUR RIGHT TO

VOTE!

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 128:

These representatives pass bills on public policy matters, control state spending, handle taxes, and can uphold or override gubernatorial vetoes.

Pamela Hunter - Democratic Party (incumbent) Stephanie Jackson - Republican Party

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