Same.
(Trying to work something with “We’re the Hekawi”, and coming up empty.)
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Do not bring your crazy here.
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It’s a CNN story.
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AP, actually.
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I thought so too at first.
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Some dim bulbs don’t know ya hafta register before voting. Some states let ya do it the day of an election, some not. Here in AZ it’s well before the election. Then ya hafta bring a picture ID to the poll in lots of places. Some places demand that you have an address on your ID and your name needs to be exactly the same on your voter registration, driver’s license, credit cards, anything at all. All these things were designed by those who desired to restrict voting. Usually that is republicans. They’re also good at grass roots stuff like gerrymandering, digital data, and census stuff on likely voters and where they live, where they work, phone numbers etc. Republicans will do anything they can to throw an election. But then democrats are not above dirty tricks either. Which is why I am not trusting of any political party. Yet I am an avid voter and I follow the issues closely. My votes fall to the liberal side pretty much all the time. It should be incumbent on all citizens to vote but some ( we vote somewhere between 50% on the high side to 25% on the low) cannot be bothered. There will come a time they will regret that. That 50% to 75% of people cannot be bothered to vote in any given election is abysmal, embarrassing, and ought to be illegal. Voting isn’t a privilege, it is a right and if we do not exercise our rights we lose them.
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I was gonna say that he seemed nice buuuut…
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Florida Man is going to be very jealous of the attention this guy is getting.
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There should be a federal law that mandates every state provide same-day registration. The state where I live, Minnesota, has had it for decades. Not coincidentally, Minnesota often leads the country in voter turnout.
Same-day registration is not a big deal at all. People just need to have proof of residency. Each polling place has a separate table for same-day registrants so they don’t even hold up the line for people already registered.
When HAVA (Help America Vote Act) was passed in 2002 that bill mandated provisional ballots.If we can do that, we can do same-day registration. The only reason we don’t have it already is a certain political party believes that voter suppression helps them win.
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The Triumph clip I watched and posted recently that was at Trump’s inauguration, several of the trump fans mentioned they were mainly glad to get rid of Obama. And Triumph made the comment that on Monday after the ceremony Trump was getting ready to do move into the white house and continue a long tradition of evicting black famlies.
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I’m thinking he looks are crazy as he probably is.
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So, he was promised money and a gun if he voted a straight-party ticket, was he? If he was also promised a lawyer, then I’ve got a pretty good hunch about who did all of the promising.
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That would be Nathan Senior, right?
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Sounds like a poll tax, to me.
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He needs a gun so badly that if they don’t give him one, he’ll shoot them…
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It’s on the midterm ballot for Maryland.
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This. In Australia, it’s actually an obligation, one of the ones you get as part of your “citizenship” package. The also have preferential voting, so you don’t get the absurd warping effect that a third party candidate can generate here. We’re not a bad place, but Dog I wish we’d agree we could learn a few things from others (“cough” - health care for all - “cough”…)
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My youngest sister just learned her insurance was going up 30% in price while coverage was being reduced, and another recently retired sister was just informed by her former employer that the would no longer partially fund health insurance for their retirees.
By voting blue I voted for their lives. And the fact that their lives depend on the results of this election makes my blood boil. Human compassion and decency should be universal!
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Nice. I’m typically skeptical of ballot initiatives and referenda as a means of legislating…but there were a number of states that had successful pro-democracy, anti-gerrymandering, and pro-voting rights measures on the ballot this election.
That’s a good thing in general but a good thing in particular for Democrats because it will stop Republicans from cheating so much. It’s heartening that when one party refuses to govern in good faith there is at least a simple majority of people who will vote for fair elections.
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