• @aodhsishaj
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    Polls don’t mean shit. Vote. Write in your fucking grandma for all I care but vote, and bring your friends. Make a party of it. Or sign up for mail in ballot if you still can, and tell your friends, family, strangers in the grocery line, coworkers, scream into the black void. VOTE.

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      1 month ago

      Uh don’t commit voter fraud wtf

      Edit oh you probably mean grandma for president. I’m in

      • @aodhsishaj
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        211 month ago

        Yes I was referencing a standard write in ballot with <Grandma’s Name> being the independent candidate

    • @[email protected]
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      Illinois just mails me a ballot before every election. Super convenient, it’s a shame more states don’t do it.

        • Lemdee
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          91 month ago

          Imagine my shock of the voting process when moving from Texas to Oregon. From pulling teeth to vote to getting it delivered on a silver platter. It feels so unconstitutional down there.

          • @[email protected]
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            -61 month ago

            Funny I lived in Texas for a while and had no problem voting. In fact I found it quite pleasant as my polling station was like a 5 minute walk from my house. Granted, I lived in a fairly affluent area which certainly gaffs the scale, but I’m curious as to what you’re experienced was.

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              Without giving too much away, how racially diverse would you say the folk were at your local polling station. And what kinda neighborhood did you cast your vote in?

              I voted in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Beaumont, Garland, and Amarillo. Not all in the same year of course but over the course of a decade. And I’ll tell you, not every polling place is staffed the same. I waited 5 hours to walk into a church lobby with only 3 polling staff and 8 poll booths for what looked like hundreds of folk. And I waited a half hour to vote in a gymnasium that might as well have been a straw poll for how it had so many staff and more polling booths than I could count.

              Some sources for those outside of the Lone Star state

              https://www.aclutx.org/en/news/5-ways-texas-suppresses-vote-and-how-make-your-vote-count

              https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/opinions/texas-ominous-voter-suppression-obeidallah/index.html

              https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/election-2020/2020/10/28/384854/voter-suppression-blunts-historic-turnout-in-texas/

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                I don’t recall really thinking about the racial makeup of the polling station, but certainly my zip code is pretty racially diverse, which white people just making up the majority. But again, a relatively wealthy area so much of that diversity was not economic.

                But it was a gym, it had a reasonable about of polling booths, and I waited only a brief time. Each time I went to vote. My biggest complaint about voting in Texas is the overwhelming number of things that are up for elections.

            • @Passerby6497
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              I lived in Texas for a while and had no problem voting.

              found it quite pleasant as my polling station was like a 5 minute walk from my house

              Hmmm, wonder why…

              I lived in a fairly affluent area

              Well, that twist was entirely expected.

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                The poster made the claim like it was a statement of fact for all of texas, I explained how my experience was different, even giving reasons why that might be the case, and you still felt the need to be a douche about it.

                Amazing.

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                  Pointing out that I’m unsurprised that you’re able to vote easily because you’re an affluent area doesn’t make me a douche. The fact that you reacted like that because I pointed out the obvious that makes your experience the exception to the rule means you should probably be pointing that accusation inwards friend.

                  Maybe don’t be so sensitive and hostile just because you’re one of the lucky ones?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -21 month ago

                    Pointing out that I’m unsurprised that you’re able to vote easily because you’re an affluent area doesn’t make me a douche.

                    Agreed. It wasn’t that you pointed it out, it was how you pointed it out. Or do you really not realize how your sarcasm comes off as douchy?

                    I pointed out the obvious

                    Lol. The whole point of me bringing it up was the point out this might explain it. I even explicitly said it probably gaffs the scale. You didn’t point it out, I did.

                    Maybe don’t be so sensitive and hostile just because you’re one of the lucky ones?

                    I think you’re inadvertently revealing what the issue is here: you’re being hostile to me because you think I’m lucky.

            • @Triasha
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              I’ve never waited more than 20 mins to vote, and never more than 5 on early voting.

              I live in a big city. It could be better, but not much better.

    • @[email protected]
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      They mean something but there’s a thing called polling error, which news outlets studiously ignore.

      The race is essentially tied currently. The danger of the new reich is very real.

    • @Nuke_the_whales
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      101 month ago

      I still remember all the polls saying Hillary was gonna win and how confident the Dems got.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve asked this before, what does Lemmy have against polling? You guys know that people aren’t using polls as a substitute for voting, right?