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I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO TEMPTED TO CROSS STATE LINES AND COMMIT ELECTION FRAUD
[id: Headline: Internet picks "werewolf clawing off its own shirt" as new Michigan "I Voted" sticker. Background image: an absolutely RIPPED werewolf, head back and howling at "I VOTED", its shirt in ribbons under its claws, the American flag behind it. End id.]
#Michigan#You better have a 100% turnout rate#DO IT FOR WEREWOLF#note that apparently your local clerk can order from the nine official designs for their stickers#So I'm not saying you need to call your local clerk and howl I WANT WEREWOLF VOTE into the phone#But I'm not not saying it#Civic engagement#Is WEREWOLF STICKER#so jealous I'm actually ready to rend something with my own claws#voting#us elections#election 2024#presidential election#us politics
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i'm maybe quarter/halfway through the heaven's in your eyes WIP and im hoping to finish it tmrw bc it's getting late and i don't want to run into a block before i can finish it LOL
but im gonna try and knock out as much as I can right now before i go to bed and then finish it tmrw 🤭
#daisy yaps <3#i swear my turnout rate has been faster lately#its probs bc of sammy and him being my muse tbh#anyways
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i love being an election judge!! there are so many kinds of people in a city neighborhood!
#it’s also a gender study. to Me.#it helps that the great state of minnesota has a consistently high turnout rate 🫶#staving off despair by participating in my community. it WORKS
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Saw another post claiming that low turnout in US elections was the result of voter apathy and I'm here to tell you that actually it's because Republican power is maintained by ensuring only the right people get to vote so when they get power they make it hard to vote, if you cite Louisiana for its 33% turnout rate your conclusion better be related to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 not related to voter apathy.
#It's sophomoronic thinking to merely discuss voter enthusiasm when that enthusiasm is *for* something#And you can actually examine the state of the system that enthusiasm is or isn't for and see why that might be#like just looking at raw data and going 'my conclusion must be right' is exactly why they invented scientific thinking#You gotta prove it and my theory fits the data way better#Like California has about twice the turnout rate is it because we love voting that much more?#No it's because voting is easy here even if you're a Republican#This is fundamentally not true in the reverse about several states
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on the one hand, yay, the tories are out!
on the other hand, uuuuurgh, that supermajority...
#me#other positives: congrats to Wales for FULLY kicking the Tories out. not a single seat in the whole country! go Wales!#and my constituency had a +60% turnout rate and I'm proud of us given the number of ~50% rates I was seeing
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I like how tumblr doesn't organize blog searches by date for me so I can't even check for recent posts <3
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Kiks as a non American who watches the way America is crumbling, I wish I could get you out ♥️
hi friend! yeah it’s definitely wild to say the least :/
not that it hasn’t always been, however, i think with so much positive social progression the pendulum swings the other way really radically in response… lots of alt right rhetoric going on and it’s v depressing to see, especially considering how it’s bled into legislation with book bans, roe v wade being overturned, major pushback against gender affirming care… super sad to see
#ask#actually really proud of my generation#pretty sure like 60% of voting aged gen z have voted#which is the highest youth turnout rate ever in the country#also the most diverse voting pool to date#so things are changing just :/#baby steps
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I love the aesthetic of fading 'We're hiring!' signs up at shitty businesses.
#firefly flits#my two previous jobs had we're hiring signa up when i started and to this day still have them up#and working at those places it's no wonder why lmao#you have a high turnout rate? gee i wonder how you can fix that!#it's called paying your employees more and not treating them like garbage
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A country that routinely disenfranchises its voters and adds barriers to voting that disproportionately affect marginalized voters DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT if you don't vote. That's what it fucking wants.
You want to send a message to the Democratic party? Vote in your fucking local and state elections and the primaries. National elections are not the time to throw this. You've been throwing your chance to push the Democrats further left if you haven't been voting in local and state elections. Because believe it or not, that's where you're going to see immediate changes. Community levels.
"I wanna send a message to the Democrats about-" no you don't. You're a conservative psyop, you don't actually give a flying fuck about the issues you claim to stand for, or you don't know how this works. The Democrats don't CARE about people who don't vote. They don't cater to them. They cater to voters. Who already skew retired white elderly conservative, because that's who's AVAILABLE to vote when Voting Day isn't a national holiday and people are standing outside polling places to intimidate away undesirable voters and gerrymandered districts are diluting voting power everywhere etc.
If you take your voice out of the pot, the average voter that the Democrats will cater to leans further right. And the issues you claim to care about? Will get hamstrung by the jackass felon you're allowing into office. Every single one.
Nobody wins if you let spite, righteous or not, control whether you vote. Least of all the people you want to protect. They suffer worse. It won't be better for them. I fucking promise you it won't be better for them if Trump wins.
to be honest it would make me a lot more comfortable if you guys would show a little concern about trump running for president again. Do not inbox me and say you don’t like joe biden omg i already know. but can we show a little concern. about donald trump. being the republican candidate for president. for the third election in a row.
#political stuff#small rant#THE USA ONLY HAS LIKE A 50% VOTER TURNOUT RATE FOR NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND THAT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT my god#they WANT you not to vote. do not fall for it
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Taking my tags out of my last reblog bc election discourse is so fucking frustrating and I want to reiterate: voting strategically is important but only you get to decide what that means for you. Take in the facts, think about where you live, plan for the future.
And stop fucking shaming people for having differing strategies when you're on the same goddamn team!!! Someone can vote third party and care about abortion access at home! Someone can vote blue and care about Palestinians!!
All I've seen is people yelling about fascism while telling each other how to vote and telling people they're horrible if they don't vote "the right way". But I haven't seen anyone talk about just using your right to vote for whoever the fuck you want to vote for!!!!!
#maybe if people werent so fucking intimidated into voting for who theyre told theyre supposed to we would have higher turnout rates#tbf ive only seen this level of vitriol online#irl people have had great conversations without descending into finger pointing#anyway folks just vote if youre able to even if you only vote locally#rae speaks
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Our Last Chance?
In a comment thread with blogging friend Barry from Aotearoa (aka New Zealand), he told me there was some disgust in his country after a recent election because voter turnout was so low … only 80%! ONLY 80%??? I would be dancing in the street with joy if we ever had an 80% voter turnout in this country! Our highest rate since 1900 was in 2020 when 66% of eligible voters actually took the time…
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It’s true that America has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the industrialized world, with only 62% of eligible adults turning up to the polls on a good year, and about 50% on a typical one. But if we really dive into the social science data, we can see that non-voters aren’t a bunch of nihilistic commie layabouts who’d prefer to die in a bridge collapse or of an untreated listeria infection than vote for someone who isn’t Vladimir Lenin. No, if we really study it carefully, we can see that the American electoral system has a series of unique features that easily account for why we find voting more cumbersome, confusing, and unrewarding than almost any other voters in the world.
Let’s take a look at the many reasons why Americans don’t vote:
1. We Have the Most Frequent Elections of Any Country
Most other democratic countries only hold major elections once every four or five years, with the occasional local election in between. This is in sharp contrast with the U.S., where we have some smattering of primaries, regional elections, state elections, ballot measures, midterm elections, and national elections basically every single year, often multiple times per year. We have elections more frequently than any other nation in the world — but just as swallowing mountains of vitamin C tablets doesn’t guarantee better health, voting more and harder hasn’t given us more democracy.
2. We Don’t Make Election Day a Holiday
The United States also does far less than most other democracies to facilitate its voters getting to the polls. In 22 countries, voting is legally mandated, and turnout is consequently very high; most countries instead make election day a national holiday, or hold elections on weekends. The United States, in contrast, typically holds elections on weekdays, during work hours, with minimal legal protections for employees whose only option to vote is on the clock.
3. We Make Registration as Hard as Possible
From Denmark, to Sweden, to Iceland, Belgium, and Iraq, all eligible voters in most democracies are automatically registered to vote upon reaching legal adulthood. Voting is typically regarded as a rite of passage one takes part in alongside their classmates and neighbors, made part of the natural flow of the country’s bureaucratic processes.
In the United States, in contrast, voter registration is a process that the individual must seek out — or more recently, be goaded into by their doctor. Here voting is not a communal event, it’s a personal choice, and failing to make the correct choice at the correct time can be penalized. In most other countries, there are no restrictions on when a voter can register, but in much of the United States, registering too early can mean you get stricken from the voter rolls by the time the election rolls around, and registering too late means you’re barred from voting at all.
4. We Make Voters Re-Register Far Too Often
In countries like Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands, voter registration updates automatically when a person moves. In the United State, any time a person changes addresses they must go out of their way to register to vote all over again. This policy disadvantages poorer and younger voters, who move frequently because of job and schooling changes, or landlords who have decided to farm black mold colonies in their kitchens.
Even if a voter does not change their address, in the United States it’s quite common for their registrations to be removed anyway— due to name changes, marriages, data breaches, or simply because the voter rolls from the previous election year have been purged to “prevent fraud” (read: eliminate Black, brown, poor, and left-leaning members from the electorate).
5. We Limit Access to Polling Places & Mail-in Ballots
In many countries, voters can show up to any number of polling places on election day, and showing identification is not always necessary. Here in the United States, the ability to vote is typically restricted to a single polling place. Voter ID laws have been used since before the Jim Crow era to make political participation more difficult for Black, brown, and impoverished voters, as well as for those for whom English is not their first language. Early and absentee voting options are also pretty firmly restricted. About a quarter of democracies worldwide rely on mail-in ballots to make voting more accessible for everyone; here, a mail-in ballot must be requested in advance.
All of these structural barriers help explain why just over 50% of non-voters in the United States are people of color, and a majority of non-voters have been repeatedly found to be impoverished and otherwise marginalized. But these populations don’t only feel excluded from the political process on a practical level: they also report feeling completely unrepresented by the available political options.
6. We Have the Longest, Most Expensive Campaign Seasons
Americans have some of the longest campaign seasons in the world, with Presidential elections lasting about 565 days on average. For reference, the UK’s campaign season is 139 days, Mexico’s is 147, and Canada’s is just 50. We also do not have publicly funded campaigns: our politicians rely upon donors almost entirely.
Because our elections are so frequent and our campaigns are so long and expensive, many American elected officials are in a nearly constant state of fundraising and campaigning. When you take into account the time devoted to organizing rallies, meeting with donors, courting lobbyists, knocking on doors, recording advertisements, and traveling the campaign trail, most federally elected politicians spend more time trying to win their seat than actually doing their jobs.
Imagine how much work you’d get done if you had to interview for your job every day. And now imagine that the person actually paying your wage didn’t want you to do that job at all:
7. Our Elected Officials Do Very Little
Elected officials who spend the majority of their hours campaigning and courting donors don’t have much time to get work done. Nor do they have much incentive to — in practice, their role is to represent the large corporations, weapons manufacturers, Silicon Valley start-ups, and investors who pay their bills, and serve as a stopgap when the public’s demands run afoul of those groups’ interests.
Perhaps that is why, as campaign seasons have gotten longer and more expensive and income inequality has grown more stark, our elected officials have become lean-out quiet quitters of historic proportions. The 118th Congress has so far been the least productive session on record, with only 82 laws having been passed in last two years out of the over 11,000 brought to the floor.
The Biden Administration has moved at a similarly glacial pace; aside from leaping for the phone when Israel calls requesting checking account transfers every two or three weeks, the executive-in-chief has done little but fumble at student loan relief and abortion protections, and bandied about banning TikTok.
The average age of American elected officials has been on a steady rise for some time now, with the obvious senility of figures like Biden, Mitch McConnell, and the late Diane Feinstein serving as the most obvious markers of the government’s stagnancy. Carting around a confused, ailing elderly person’s body around the halls of power like a decommissioned animatronic requires a depth of indifference to human suffering that few of us outside Washington can fathom. But more than that, it reflects a desperation for both parties to cling to what sources of influence and wealth they have. These aged figures are/were reliable simps for Blackstone, General Dynamics, Disney, and AIPAC, and their loyalty is worth far more than their cognitive capacity, or legislative productivity. Their job, in a very real sense, is to not do their job, and a beating-heart cadaver can do that just fine.
You can read the rest of the list for free (or have it narrated to you on the Substack app) at drdevonprice.substack.com!
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I genuinely hate how US-centric the discussion of political and social issues on the internet tends to be.
That being said the overall political situation in Europe is concerning but not dire quite yet. The results aren't fully in yet, but EPP (center-right) and S&D (left) are likely still going to be the leading groups, and in many countries left leaning parties still got the majority of votes.
(This next part is not directed at the prev reblogs! Just needed to be added imo) please let's try our best to spread awareness of the concerning trend of far-right European parties without falling into fear mongering. And let's try to spread the good news as much as we spread the bad ones.
Fear-mongering and doomer mentality only pushes people away from getting interested in politics, and turnout rates are already really low
We aren't the fucking european elections trending on here. Man y'all were all over eurovision but the elections were today and nobody is posting abt it??? Dude here in germany a right wing extremist nazi ass party is the second strongest one. Same in france and other countries as well. I feel like im in a dumpsterfire. Please fucking talk about it.
Ich geh jetzt im strahl kotzen tschau
#in italy left leaning parties complessively got around as many votes as the right leaning ones!#which is nice considering how the last national elections went#i'm a bit mad about how low the turnout rate was in general but whatever
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"Colorado is poised to be the first state to to expand automatic voter registration to Native American reservations, thanks to a new registration system.
Tribal members have the right to vote in elections, from the local to the national level, just like other U.S. citizens. But actually casting a ballot has been an uphill battle for many tribal residents, including those here in Colorado. Even after obtaining official U.S. citizenship a century ago, Native Americans’ ability to vote has been consistently ignored or actively undermined. In recent decades, unequal access to in-person voting, early voting and election funding on tribal lands has been a particular issue...
Working with Colorado tribes, state lawmakers passed a set of election reforms earlier this year to expand voting access for Native Americans. Those reforms include the nation’s first automatic voter registration program of its kind for Native Americans. The program will cover both of the federally-recognized Native American reservations in the state—the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and will allow the tribes’ governments to submit lists of members to be registered through the Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office.
Griswold said the new registration system could make a big difference for Colorado's tribal communities.
"Seeing registration rates and turnout rates being much, much lower on tribal lands is a big problem that we want to solve,” Griswold said. “I personally believe automatic voter registration is one of the best ways to register voters in the state of Colorado, and all of our data shows how highly effective it is.”
Colorado is one of more than two dozen states that have automatic voter registration systems, but Colorado is the only state so far to extend its system to cover Native American reservations. When Colorado rolled out its system for the first time in 2020, about 250,000 people were added to the state’s voter rolls within the first year.
Now, [Secretary of State] Griswold hopes the new registration program will have a similar effect on tribal lands in the state. She wants to see the program in place in time for the 2024 election. For now, tribal leadership is reviewing the plan and providing feedback on it.
“It will not take us much time to register people once we start receiving data,” Griswold told KUNC. “But I think there's a couple of logistics to still work through.”
Measures to keep tribal members' information confidential were added recently at the request of the Southern Ute tribe, and lawmakers have also increased the number of on-reservation vote centers available for early voting and on Election Day.
This year’s election reforms also build on a slew of changes in recent years. For example, in 2019 Colorado lawmakers guaranteed in-person voting centers on tribal lands and loosened address requirements for voters."
-via GoodGoodGood, December 15, 2023
#colorado#native american#indigenous#first nations#indigenous rights#native american rights#united states#us politics#automatic voter registration#voter registration#election 2024#2024 election#voting access#democrats#voting matters#voting#voting rights#ute#good news#hope
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this isn't the first time we've seen evidence that the current climate of anti-trans panic in the US has largely been manufactured by (or at the very least, stoked by) a small number of conservative interest groups, but the leaked materials from this group do make it pretty clear that trans people are being used a wedge issue to increase republican turnout:
In a member briefing video, one of Ziklag’s spiritual advisers outlined a plan to “deliver swing states” by using an anti-transgender message to motivate conservative voters who are exhausted with Trump.
although it does seem like they believe their own rhetoric and aren't "just" willing to turn trans people into collateral damange:
Other internal Ziklag documents voice strong opposition to same-sex marriage and transgender rights. One reads: “transgender acceptance = Final sign before imminent collapse.”
and somehow this is only the tip of the iceberg here:
a charity funded by mega-wealthy christian donors who think that secular mega-wealthy donors are more generous than christians (much to unpack there lol) and want to close that gap
the fact that it's set up a tax-exempt 5013c org but 100% operating as a PAC, which according to a little group called the IRS is super duper illegal
general christian nationalist shit, including a belief that “the biblical role of government is to promote good and punish evil” and that “the word of god and prayer play a significant role in policy decisions"
using a tool called eagleAI that "claim[s] to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters" in a bid to kick 100k+ voters off the rolls in swing states
a seven-pronged plan that extends into non-political avenues like the entertainment industry, like a goal to make 80% of movies produced either have a G or PG rating and offer a tidy moral
the hobby lobby family is here because of course they are
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