most states combine all votes despite party.
You can find one candidate endorsed by numerous parties and all votes get counted together no matter which exact line they were voted on.

Be nominated by more than one party.

In "local" elections in upstate NY, we have democratic candidates do this all the time. The reason is that many republicans take a "loyalty oath," and swear to never vote for a Democrat. By being listed as, say, a Democrat and Working Families Party candidate, even a republican can vote for you, and not violate their oath.

for races where they might not overlap. So if a candidate is nominated by both the Democratic and Green parties, a Green-minded voter can vote for the candidate on the Green line and that will count for the Green party's percentage for ballot access.

The most famous cases of this were 1872, when the Democrats and "Liberal Republican" party nominated Horace Greeley for President, and 1896 when William Jennings Bryan was nominated by both the Democrats and the Populists (although the Populists insisted on a different Vice-Presidential nominee instead of accepting the one the Democrats had picked).

The great part about that is that you can vote for that candidate on either the Democratic line/space or the Working Families Party space (but not both). If a dem. appears on both lines, I always vote for him/her on the WFP line because the candidate still gets my vote, but sees that I am expecting that person to represent PROGRESSIVE values and that's why he/she got my vote. It sends a message.

For Ms. Linda WWE, I don't think it'll matter because she'll find tomorrow morning that she again wasted millions and millions of dollars. I hope she finally goes away and I never have to see or hear her again.

Interesting...Shays is also Working Families. Thanks for your post! I'm on my way to town hall now. I live in a tiny Eastern CT town, so not too worried about lines.

I just checked the list on the WFP site and Chris Shays is not listed there. I'm pretty sure they would NEVER endorse a republican candidate.

Shays ran against Linda McMahon to be the republican nominee for the US Senate seat. He lost to McMahon.

John Murphy is running here, too. Whatever...I voted all Working Families, except for Obama/Biden...they were just Dems.

Republicans are often also on the Conservative tickek, some Democrats are on the Working Families Party line. I think there was even a case where some judges were on both the Democratic and Republican tickets a few cycles back.

Obama-Democratic & Working Families | Romney-Republican & Conservative (LOL)