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      If you have the opportunity, vote-by-mail is genuinely awesome also. I qualify in my state because I’m chronically ill, and it’s one of the few silver linings. I get a ballot in the mail every time an election happens like clockwork, I have time to do my research and it’s significantly harder to forget.

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        In California you no longer need to apply for vote-by-mail, they mail a ballot to everyone and you can either mail it back, no stamp needed, or drop it in any ballot box, or take it to any polling place on the day to hand it to a person.

        It’s so much better to be able to sit there at a computer or on your phone, looking up the candidates for the smaller offices and marking them as you go.

        And you can get phone notifications for when your ballot is received and counted.

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          Oregon too. There’s also a service where you just give it your voting registration details and an email address and it emails you:

          • when your ballot is mailed to you
          • when it is received back from you
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          Same in Michigan. Voters here passed a ballot initiative with a bunch of voting rights protections in 2022, and now you can sign up to be mailed a ballot once, and they keep sending it for every election if that, if you check the box saying you want that. It makes it SO easy to vote, especially for smaller elections that I ordinarily probably wouldn’t pay attention to

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            Isn’t it amazing how much more likely we are to participate in our democracy once the barriers are taken away?

            It’s almost like the people whose wealth doesn’t depend on showing up to a job every day wanted to be the only ones making decisions.

            It took a pandemic for the states to even try it, and some states have pulled it back.

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            Wisconsin’s been fun with voting rights restrictions. After the repeal of the repbulican drawn & super-biased districts that jerrymandered the state to shit, republicans have been pushing ballot measure after ballot measure to try to suppress voters, because if they can’t win by cheating one way they’ll find a different way to cheat

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        The MAGAs are attacking the election system in my state (Georgia) so hard that, at this point, I’m starting to worry about mail-in ballots being fraudulently thrown out because of false claims of signature mismatch.

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          If you do it early enough, it shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve had my vote thrown out because of signature and I just had to confirm it was me. Georgia is gonna Georgia though, they’re going to try stuff at the live polls too.

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          I voted in Colorado a couple years back. I had moved here several months before. I had all the documents to prove residency. 3 months after the election, I got a letter saying that a (conservative asshole) group had challenged my vote and it was thrown out, and was told I could go to court and prove I was legal to vote but also if I did so it threatened me with jail or fines if it didn’t work. It was 3 months after the election and it had all been counted already, so why tf would I do that?

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          Yeah, I plan to do in-person early voting rather than take my chances with mail-in voting.

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          Yeah I live in a state turned red by gerrymandering and brain drain (Ohio) and I won’t vote by mail because I’m not certain it’ll be counted if the legislature doesn’t like what the mail votes do. Our legislators love ignoring our votes.

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        This is automatic in WA state, and I absolutely love it. Never missed a local or federal election.

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        During covid my state allowed anyone to sign up for permanent mail in voting ans I love it. Wish every state had it. It’s so convienent.

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              A large number in fact would rather consume entertainment exclusively than be informed at all.

              See also: the American diet

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              Well, no. They might see 5 minutes of packaged and processed snippets a day and maybe glance at a headline, if they read or watch news it’s stuff like celebrity gossip.

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              Yeah, major elections are always the Tuesday following the first Monday of November. Every year but most of the time it’s only significant every two years with President every four (it’s easy to remember because it happens to fall on leap years). Minor elections can happen three other times in the year (I think it’s the Tuesday following the first Monday of February, May, and August, but February and August are so rare that it was blatant election fuckery when my state had a ballot initiative vote last august). Oh and primary elections vary by state and party and are basically never on a major or minor Election Day but tend towards Tuesdays.

              Oh and we don’t get off work for it. You can also be purged from the voter rolls without notice.

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                February and August are so rare that it was blatant election fuckery when my state had a ballot initiative vote last august

                Fellow Ohioan spotted?

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                February and August are so rare that it was blatant election fuckery when my state had a ballot initiative vote last august

                Fellow Ohioan spotted?

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              Originally they did that because people would have to travel for so long to vote and it would give the candidates time to travel as needed, but we now can send information effectively instantaneously and traveling across the country can be accomplished in half a day by plane

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      It’s also a hell of a lot more convenient to fill out a ballot at your kitchen table. You can look up all those downballot no-names you have never heard of.

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        This is actually one of the reasons they are against mail in or drop off ballots. Educated voters scare the shit out of them.

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      Remember, remember this fifth of November

      The insurrection, incitement, and plot.

      I see no reason

      That Donald Trump’s treason

      Should ever be forgot.

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        Trump wouldn’t know who Guy Fawkes is. US Election Day falls on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. It’s just a coincidence it happens to be the 5th this year. My comment was mostly a direct reply to OP.

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            It’s apparently a hold over from olden times when good Christian farmers weren’t going to skip church to travel to the county seat and vote. So Monday is a travel day and Tuesday is when you vote. Or something like that.

            Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

            Edit: and both are catering to farmers. Those and corn subsidies are the 3 immutable objects in American life, all catering to farmers.

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              Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

              Unless your George W Bush, in which case DST can be rescheduled by 2 weeks and cause everything with automatic time changes but no updates to be manually adjusted twice a year…

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                Valid point. In my head I was speaking of the existence of DST, not when it changed. But I did use the word “immutable”, so I guess I’m back to 2 of those - Tuesday voting and corn subsidies.

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      Demonstration, intimidation, physically preventing anyone not wearing a MAGA hat from voting… Potato potato

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        HA! Could you imagine if we all got together and bought red hats and Trump lost? There would be fucking chaos. The morons would be in the streets screaming about how they saw nothing but MAGA voters.

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          Eight years in and I’m still pissed about those fucking hats. I have this nice red cap that a friend gave me almost 15 years ago. It was custom-made, and has a starburst image that a third friend created… and the cap base is the exact same shade of red as those fucking Trump hats, so I’ve not been able to wear it in public for 8 years.

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            I had a coca cola hat that I used to wear. I gave up on it after the third person said they thought it was a MAGA hat at a distance.

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            When I was toddler back in the early 80s, I couldn’t say grandma because enunciation hard. So I said it the best I could. Phonetically, it was maw-gah but when I got a bit older and could spell, it was Maga. To this day I still call her that and so do my kids.

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            Why? Are you worried about offending some mouth breather?

            You’re looking at it the wrong way. You’re keeping morons away from you.

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              Nah it’s a real thing. The baseball team here has red hats and you used to see them everywhere. You see a lot of team hats in not red now, it’s not about “offending some mouth breather” it’s about a person a block away seeing me in my red hat and assuming I’m the mouth breather.

              They ruined actual red hats faster than RedHat ruined a linux distro.

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                it’s about a person a block away seeing me in my red hat and assuming

                You’re not getting it. The person assuming you’re a trump supporter because you have a red hat IS THE MOUTH BREATHER.

                Why do you care so much about what strangers think? If they assume then they are the assholes.

                It’s asshole mouth breather repellent.

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                  You’re free to feel however you want. I live in a reasonably sized city with a thriving arts and music scene, I’d like be able to go out for meals and drinks and go to various events and have conversations and interactions with people without their first impression of me being “ohfuck ohfuck ohfuck” as they struggle to read my hat as I walk by.

                  That they’d steer clear of a MAGAt doesn’t paint them as a mouth breather in this day and age; it makes them seem wary and like someone I’d agree with.

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      He’s waiting for the 6 month mandatory period to expire, when he will dump ihs DJT stock and make an absolute killing. Maybe finally become an actual billionaire.

      Then he will be back on shitter full time. Payoff for fElon will be more users on his site, while Truth Social folds.

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    When he was tweeting for his followers to amass and how it was going to get “wild” (from memory I think that’s what he said) on January 6th long in advance I was freaked out but everyone said that was not a big deal.

    I still doubt anyone will see this as a big deal the second time :/

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    Holy shit!! He said something that I actually agree with. I didn’t think that would ever happen.

    VOTE!!! Volunteer to give rides to those that wouldn’t be able to vote without it. Anything you can do, it will make a difference.

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    I mean yea? It’s election day for an election that I think both sides consider pretty important. Granted, that’s a bit of hyperbole, but this is a far cry from a call to violence. Harris could say the exact same thing, in fact she’s likely has said something similar.

    Saying this is a threat isn’t just an overreaction, it’s downright embarrassing. This is the kind of crap the right shares to try and paint Dems as weak, thin-skinned, idiots.

    Trump says so much awful shit that warrants this reaction, but not EVERYTHING does FFS.