Brian Pritchard, Georgia Republican official and Election Denier, receives a $5,000 fine for voting illegally NINE TIMES, while we have #CrystalMason out here being sentenced to 5 years in prison for trying to cast a provisional ballot 😡 >>>
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If you haven't already done so, find out if you are entitled to vote and express your choices. 🏃
"...a large fraction of the country does not follow the news. Not on TV, not in newspapers, and not on the Internet. They are busy living their lives and politics is simply not important to them."
This insight may come as a revelation.
We easily forget that the community we choose is different from that of the general population. My community on #Mastodon includes the masto-cognoscenti, #writers, #authors, #artists, #photographers, the #autistic, #neurodivergent, people into #SF, #fantasy, and #fanfiction, as well as political activism. Your community probably varies from mine, as does your follow list.
We see the world differently.
Why does it feel like the voting public is so easily swayed or conned by bad candidates or bad ideas? Not all people think way we do, or the way our chosen communities do. The above quote is from the linked article.
Keeping this all in mind, this insight provides...
a basis for strategies to change how the public thinks. We can't expect our arguments to work for them, nor that they're listening to the channels we use to promote our ideas
a reason to re-humanize our thinking about the 99% who, gasp, aren't stupid after all. Instead they're struggling, occupied making life work, or simply disinterested. We can let go of our anger and think rationally.
If you support proportional representation then you might want to sign this petition that is asking the Labour Parry to prioritise voting reform in government.
While PR is not a sufficient change to transform UK politics for the better it is certainly a necessary element.
Signing won't take you long & who knows perhaps Keir Starmer & his team might listen...
BREAKING: Canada's federal Liberal party are announcing new legislation today to reform the Elections Act. The motion will allow a total of three days to vote, including weekends along with allowing you to vote at ANY polling place and advancements in mail in voting.
"I’m telling you, attend these checks and balances. We test all of our equipment before every election — every election — to make sure it’s functioning properly; it’s accurate. And those are open to the public,” Lyons said."
@mattblaze@mike This is literally how we vote in Canada: a cardboard box and a paper ballot. Granted we're only 40 million people, but no one ever feels the need to question the results.
An armed and masked soldier checks #voting booths when #voters are inside. "Look what's going on, and it's been like that the whole day" - a voice is heard behind the camera, presumably of an observer.
We've already seen mass imitations and falsifications of elections in Russia, but it's the first time seen soldiers with a rifle looking over the voter's back. In the fascist totalitarian state of russia.
🤔Gee, who owns the #RNC? Oooo, ooo! Pick me! I know!🙋🏻♀️ 1/...
Via democracydocket:
BREAKING: Republican National Committee files lawsuit alleging that #Michigan's voter rolls are outdated and the state is in violation of the National Voter Registration Act. The RNC wants Michigan to purge voters before the November election.
@GottaLaff
Here, here!
You can’t take your eyes off these “destroyer of (political)worlds”.
It just “burns my buns” the bs they try to pull.
I know our Sec. of State & AG will do their part…
But so must we…
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I am not surprised yet I am still horrified by how many white women will debase themselves to support DJT - both publicly and in the privacy of the voting booth. SMDH.
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#WomensHistoryMonth#politics#voting#allies
A project for Women's History Month - why not do an advocacy campaign? Pick 5 white women that you know and talk to them about democracy. Then get the names of 5 white women they know and talk to them and so on until Nov. Every black person in the US can vote for Biden and he wouldn't win. But if 55% of white women would vote Dem, he would. Talk to white women about ending patriarchy. That plan might work.
#Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s #defamation case against Kari Lake moves forward to discovery. Richer is not infallible but I appreciate he seems to take his job seriously and stand up for better #elections.
Also, this is the second L for Lake this week. Nelson voice Ha ha
Last Friday, I dropped off my ballot for today’s primary election. I’ve got to say, I really appreciate the new approach in LA County of mailing everyone eligible a ballot, maintaining permanent drop boxes at relevant locations (libraries, etc.), and opening some polling places early to accept completed ballots.
MUCH more convenient than needing the time on one specific day and, in elections with a lot of turnout, waiting 45 minutes, an hour, or longer.
The longest I’ve waited was when I was living in Orange County, either 2003 or 2004, and they actually had to apply the “if you’re in line at closing time, you get to vote” rule. Someone brought a box of to-go coffee from the Starbucks down the street (I think Starbucks might have donated it, too?) and was offering it either to the poll workers or to those of us still in line.
The first election in which the county implemented early voting and flexible polling places (instead of requiring you to get to the specific place on your sample ballot) was also the week before COVID-19 hit the area. Now that I think of it, they still didn’t send out an actual ballot by mail unless you requested one. That changed that when it became clear COVID wasn’t going to just blow over before November. Since then some of the smaller, local elections have been mail-only.