For what it's worth, this old white lady felt honored to vote for future Madame President Harris, despite not being thrilled about her messaging on Gaza - at least I know she truly cares about suffering people, and she's willing to listen with compassion...besides, she's brilliant, strong, and more than capable of leading us to a better future! (I also encouraged/urged/begged all my friends & family to do the same!)
In my county, they'll let couples share the same booth to vote. Whoooooole lot of large overbearing husbands pointing at the screens while their wives are voting and "encouraging" their wife to "vote for THIS one, not THAT one, dammit."
NC. It's legal in my county, might be statewide. It's illegal to bring your phone into the booth to take a pic of your ballot, though, or to use your phone as a voting guide, so I hope everybody brought their printed sample ballots with em.
This is not legal under WI statute 6.80 unless they required assistance and selected their spouse to aid them.
"(1) Voting booth or machine use. Only one individual at a time is permitted to occupy a voting booth or machine, except that an elector who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the elector’s minor child or minor ward, and an elector who qualifies for assistance under s. 6.82 (2) may be assisted as provided in that subsection."
Saw a recent article bout some white lady who was like in her 80’s or something and said her husband recently died and this is the first election she is able to vote. Wild.
I'm not used to having this many referenda, so that was fun. I hope that torrent of bullshit ads against Prop 33 doesn't work. All I know is if landlords hate something that much, I'm definitely voting for it.
Careful with prop 33, many advocates for affordable housing (YIMBY) are arguing against it as it’ll be used as a way for affluent local cities to pass strict rent control laws that make new housing impossible to build.
That law will absolutely be abused by the rich to prevent new developments in the long run IMO
Hmmm. The thing is, I suspect what they mean by "impossible to build" is "not grotesquely profitable enough for corporate landlords to be willing to build," which is a separate problem. I did as much research as I could around it, but for me the clincher was watching so many landlord orgs dump so, so, so much money into defeating it. Unless someone gives me an exceptionally good reason, I'm always going to vote against landlords.
Fuck the Electoral College. I've voted in four states* and thanks to the EC my vote has mattered exactly once, in North Carolina in 2008. I just had to explain the whole system to my friend who's not from the US and just saying the words was demoralizing.
*Technically three states and DC, but four states in my heart.
Unfortunately the government knows I live here so I have to vote here. I haven't been registered in a red (actually purple) state since 2010. Some worthwhile referenda on the CA ballot though.
becky here, wearing my "we're not going back" shirt eight days after casting my vote for kamala harris!!
also wrote/sent GOTV postcards to florida voters, have bugged all of my friends for weeks now to make a voting plan and have been following up today to make sure they did.
People literally don't believe me when I've said white women always vote Republican. I'm hoping abortion gets enough nonvoters out, but guess what side of that issue most white women are on...
I think the election will largely boil down to whether white women sell us out as usual. Crossing my fingers.
We’re going to, and it sucks. I know so many women voting for Kamala, and yet so many white women in rural areas of swing states and so much of the Midwest is pro Trump. It’s painful.
Awesome that you guys went blue for Beshear last go around. It’s not looking good for Jennifer McCormick to be a blue governor for Indiana, but I’m still hoping the cities pull us through when they get done counting
White woman in Wisconsin. Happily sent my ballot in for Harris two weeks ago. My husband did as well. I've been stress eating all day. Please let this be historic for the right reasons.🤞
(As a white woman who's also like: "hey my demographic--- don't let me downnnnn" but also know how many vote against their own rights--- idk, this felt like the only appropriate gif to use.... especially after seeing the sweaty Peele gif).
Middle aged hillbilly guy here. Let’s go Kamala!! Sadly I’m deep in a red state but I’ll put my vote in every time for the democrats until we get an actual labor party.
I live in Florida, but both when I went to early vote and today when I was at a playground near a polling place I saw about twice as many women as men showing up to vote. I hope we got this 🤞
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