for a quick change of pace–i know we’ve all seen a thousand posts about voting, but what i haven’t seen (not yet) is one saying thank you.
thank you for those who made it out in the rain and the cold, who organized and canvassed and took on the onerous task of working with non-voting & conservative friends/family to change their stance if at least just this once. thank you for those who stood in line for hours, who had to travel because your voting place was moved, who had to jump through ridiculous fucking hoops to register, who weren’t inspired but showed up anyway for the disenfranchised and the greater good. thank you as well to everyone who voted early, absentee, and provisional.
Hey so friendly reminder about voting and elections that I haven’t seen going around yet but is SUPER IMPORTANT.
Watch what you wear and say while you’re waiting in line for the voting booth/at the polls. It is against federal law to do anything that might be considered campaigning once you’re there, and since we know that voter suppression is the name of the game this election, there will be people looking for ANY reason to remove you from the polling place. And they will nitpick. You have a shirt with a artistic picture of donkey on it? You’re visibly supporting the Democrats, you’re disqualified from voting. Want to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt? Not there you don’t. They’ll call it intimidation and kick you out. Pins, buttons, stickers, none of it. Wear the most bland, plain clothes you can imagine.
And then keep your mouth shut. Even the slightest hint of discussion about which candidate you’re voting for can get used against you. Don’t assume the people around you are safe to discuss it with. You might be overheard. There WILL people watching for these things, hoping to get rid of anyone they can. Voter suppression isn’t just about making registration impossible. It happens at the polling stations too. Be smart, be bland, be quiet, and make sure your vote gets in.
Also- and I have seen this mentioned but it bears repeating- DO NOT TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR BALLOT. EVER. It’ll also disqualify your vote. Take a selfie when you’re out of their with your fun little sticker.
This is for your protection as much as your oppression: this means the opposition party can’t use those tactics against you either – and if anyone tries, REPORT THEM.
Any analysis of Democratic losses in red states that doesn’t begin and end with Shelby v. Holder isn’t worth listening to.
seriously, this is fucked up. I live in a town in Ohio that’s only slightly bigger (~30,000) and we have like 16 in the city limits alone, and another 10-15 in the surrounding area.
It is a classic voter suppression tactic, and it is sickening that it is allowed to happen without major repercussions for whomever engages in it.
Check your voter registration. If you have any mutuals in Texas, specifically, inform them of the need to check their voter registrations but they are trying to pull this crap all over the country. Check your voter registration early, and check it often.
Check your voter registration
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Regarding the utter bullshit that was the Arizona Primary:
Marciopa County had 60 polling places for a population of 3-5 million people
In comparison, I live in a town of about 130 thousand. Now, a lot of them are military who usually absentee vote in their home states, but their spouses generally register where they live.
And we had 15 polling places. In just my town, that’s not the county. Now I went to vote midday, but there was still not more then a couple people in line.
I will paste those again at the end with a little more commentary, but first I would like to go on at some length, as I so frequently do!
I’m a liberal. In fact, I mean, I’m flaming pinko dyke scum, basically: I’ve identified as a socialist since I was fourteen and I read The Grapes of Wrath and then found out that my extremely badass great-grandma, a pre-WWI non-English-speaking Jewish woman, went to college, cut off all her hair, got arrested and then tossed out of her home country for Communist agitation, and then shacked up in New Jersey with an illegal immigrant union activist and raised two children with him in sin. So. I’m a liberal. That seems like a very safe statement to me, like saying “I breathe oxygen” or “I dislike close-toed shoes.”
The first national election I was eligible to vote in occurred in 2000.
It’s Super Tuesday. If you live in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont or Virginia, your primary nominating contest is today for both Democrats and Republicans. If you’re a Democrat in Colorado or American Samoa or a Republican in Alaska, your primary nominating contest is also today [x]. In addition to checking whether or not you’re registered, canivote.org can also help you find your polling place.
