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Have you voted? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Not telling you here, who to vote for, but please try to vote! Thank you!!!!

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

i used to live in texas and every time i both didn't qualify for mail in voting and the hours long wait at the ballot place turned me away despite my best efforts. (i wish that portable personal urinals with privacy and dinner delivery to polling places with garbage cleanup were things).

i live in an affluent area of a blue state now like i used to and i plan on voting since i know i'll be in and out in less than 5 minutes like i was in the past.

i'm going to vote third party to show that i'm not onboard w a genocide committed by the same system & people that genocided my ancestors out of existence in this country.

[–] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 3 days ago

I still find it so baffling that red states are limiting the number of polling places to make it as inconvenient as possible to vote. Surely that reduces the willingness to vote of their own base too. Given the electoral college, jerrymandering, and voter roll purges, you'd think they'd be satisfied with how things are rigged already without resorting to blatant disenfranchisement.

It would be cool for you guys to have a viable third party, so you should try to make that a reality outside of just voting if you can. I'm sure they would appreciate a donation or another volunteer after the election and local efforts are often more meaningful long-term since they help create the grassroots support that leads to national viability.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 4 days ago

i used to live in texas and every time i both didn't qualify for mail in voting and the hours long wait at the ballot place turned me away despite my best efforts. (i wish that portable personal urinals with privacy and dinner delivery to polling places with garbage cleanup were things).

WTF, that sounds criminal. I never had to wait in line for more than a few minutes, if at all. And everyone can mail in their vote.

[–] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

I would strongly urge you to reconsider this voting strategy. By voting 3rd party, you are saying that you are fine with Donald Trump becoming president again which I believe is many times worse than what you have a problem with the current administration. Is him becoming elected really a better outcome for the overall future? While an important issue to you, you’re exposing a flaw in our election system in that your non-vote is just about the equivalent of a vote for Trump.