- Was I eligible to vote in the last election?
- Did I vote?
If the answer to the first question is "yes" and the answer to the second question is "no", then consider shutting the fuck up until November, 2026.
However much you think your vote doesn't count, it does. 90 million Americans were eligible to vote in 2024 and, for whatever reason, couldn't be bothered to do that one act of citizenship. An act of citizenship that people have been killed over. An act of citizenship that a majority of Americans were once forbidden to perform, either by intimidation or by the law (and still are, in more and more states).
But you, you special snowflake, couldn't get off your dead ass and vote.
Note that I'm not making this contingent on for whom you voted. Regardless of what I think of Der Drumpfenführer, those who voted for him are mostly honorable citizens (neo-nazis notwithstanding) who exercised their rights as citizens.
To those who could have voted but didn't: Your opinions on political matters are without value.
You didn't vote.
Shut the fuck up.
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While my vote in the presidential contest wasn't as crucial as, say, someone in Ohio, my down ballot choices did help legalize pot here, and send Barbara Lee back to congress with 90% of the vote in her district...
-Doug in Oakland
Preach it, sister.
Yes. Yes.
Now, as for those who didn't despite being able to, I have a better solution. Any statement they make MUST be preceded by "I didn't vote but". That way we can skip the bullshit if we wish, or read their drivel, if we want amusement. After a while, they'll get tired and quit posting till they don't have to do that.
As for real solutions. Voting should occur over a week long period. Early voting for any reason, up to three weeks before the election. Any polling station that has more than an average 30 minute wait over the election shall result in a fine for the responsible governmental entity. No ID, sign a statement swearing to your eligibility, not on the rolls, the same. Punishment for lying, community service, one hour per thousand dollars of income, with a 10 hour minimum, for the first offense. Second and after to have increasing punishments, including mandatory jail time. Paper trail on all votes required. That'd be a start...then we start thinking about fines for not voting, but...
CP88, won't happen. Not so long as we have a major political party which has embraced voter-suppression as a tool to prevail in elections.
I so agree. Those that didn't think it important enough to vote in this election are what has doomed the rest of us.
Even if tRump had still won, a full half of our country needed to stand up and add their vote.
What do we need?
w3ski
Amen, with one quibble: Here in VA, state elections are in odd-numbered years. Please no mention of 2018 until after we've chucked those Cro-Magnons out of Richmond.
There's a revealing map showing what the presidential election results would have been if "did not vote" were a choice that was counted. "Did not vote" would have won an overwhelming majority of states and electoral seats.
I agree with CenterPuke88 that opinions from people who could have voted but didn't bother should be preceded by "I didn't vote but..." -- they have far less moral right to complain about the results.
Radiolab recently had an episode about both false (as passed along by Ann Landers) and TRUE stories of cases where one vote made a difference. One of the true stories was about the final ratification of the 19th Amendment, recognizing women's right to vote nationwide; it came down to the one vote by Tennessee legislator Harry T. Burn, who had been wearing a red rose (signaling intent to vote against suffrage) but changed his vote, going along with his mother's advice.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/one-vote/
Sorry, but my vote doesn’t count. I voted for Sanders in the primary, and 45 got outvoted by me and 3 million others. I still have the right to sound off and complain if I stay home this November, thank you.
Hi... I wrote this little ditty about voting, hope you like it! https://gortnation.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-four-commandments.html
1) yes
2) no
2016 was manipulated as was 2020. Sanders was way ahead before it started.
How is the vote suppressed?
I voted, I have voted since (never mind!). Even though I'm a techno
geek and engineer My HS diploma (NY regents) was for English,
Social studies, and math. Over those years I had a few American
history teachers that made that history relevant. Keep in mid that
was the late 60s and very early 70s, So there is in that block of history
a lot of stuff... Some I was there for.
So voting is not an option, never was, never will be. More than a
few times I've held my nose and voted anyways as I'd thought
both sucked but one sucked less.
So yes, I get to bitch. My biggest bitch was about 10million
(plus or minus) didn't vote this 2024 election as compared
to the 2020 election. I don't know why, they just did not.
That bothers me!
Eck!
For the record, I didn't vote the presidential race in 2016 because the choices were so odious. I voted the rest of the ballot and now the Democrats have lost to Donnie Two Scoops twice. A party that can fuck up a wet dream.
Ditto, but I’ll admit I first voted in 1988, as I wasn’t quite eligible in 1984 because INS was slow to process. Along the way, I’ve done the occasional stunt vote in local races that’s didn’t matter (forgone conclusions with the winner exceeding 70%), but otherwise I’m 5-5 in the big one and much worse for Congress due to the State’s leanings.
Making it harder for minorities to vote, such as closing polling stations in nonwhite neighborhoods, closing DMV offices in nonwhite counties (since ID is needed to vote) and now, seeking to disenfranchise married women.
If you didn't vote, you seriously ought to consider not running your gob about politics, since you didn't take the step to make your voice heard.
Hey ColdSoldier, can you provide some details to your claims of manipulation regarding the 2016 and 2020 elections? Are you talking fraud, disinformation, something else? I mean widespread fraud has been proven to be fiction. Sure, there are some who make nebulous claims of statistical anomalies, but there's never any facts to back it up. So to what are you referring?
How are minorities inconvenienced?
You may not know why Seth rich was murdered but you will soon.
I honestly thought your 2020 playbook was now the rule.
Maybe it was and didnt work
I not ammo on election day
I almost hesitate to ask, but enlighten us.
Wikileaks hasn’t been proven wrong yet.
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