Get off your high horse. You did make a choice. You chose to not make a choice.
And with the way that electoral calculus and bias works in the US, not voting is disproportionately harmful to Democratic candidates, and disproportionately helpful to Republican candidates. You helped this happen by not voting.
Since I haven’t had an opportunity to even go through the process of voting, despite trying, waiting for ~2 hours, only to close at 8pm and officers ordered everyone still waiting to leave, I have no experience with the actual process of voting.
So how does the process actually work? From my understanding, unless I’m mistaken, don’t people get to vote on numerous positions at once, not just the president?
Like, I’d be looking at the options and be wondering who half or more of the candidates even are, and also not even being sure exactly what the nature of their job is in the bigger picture, not knowing a damn thing about them to make any educated decision.
Also, from my understanding, in my state, if you vote Democrat, you have to vote all Democrats, and if you vote Republican, you have to vote all Republicans. Like what the hell do names and campaign goals even mean if you don’t have the option to vote Democrat for one office, but might actually like the campaign goals of a Republican for another office?
It’s like what the hell do names even matter, if I’m a registered Democrat voter (which I am), then shouldn’t they already know how I’d vote anyways?
If I’m mistaken on any of this, by all means please let me know. Please be willing to educate inexperienced people as to how the voting process even works before giving them shit for not voting after trying, only for everyone still waiting to get sent home.
You gotta get in the building first. Back in 2016, me and a friend went to vote. I would have voted Vermin Supreme (legit candidate no less), and my buddy planned on writing in Batman.
We stood in line for around 2 hours. For about the last half hour of waiting it was raining. Around half of everyone knew the weather forecast and had an umbrella, including us.
They closed the voting place (library) down at 8pm sharp, and the cops told everyone in line to go home. We were probably 150~200 people back in line.
We all waited that long, even in the fucking rain, only to be ordered to leave?!
If it matters (which it probably does), our state doesn’t have early voting, you get one day to do it and that’s it.
Wait 2 goddamn hours, partly in the rain, only to get shut down with around 200 people or so waiting to vote?!
Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.
Having worked the polls: if you are in line to vote, you get to vote. The cops do not have any grounds to order you to leave your polling location because it’s “too late”. That is a violation of your rights as a citizen. The correct response is “make me; and if you do, I’ll have your fucking job, officer”.
We’re also not supposed to have a felon for president in the first place, he shouldn’t have been eligible to even run for office. But here we are, guess you poll workers didn’t protest that either huh?
You can’t sit and blame people that didn’t vote when the poll workers fucking allowed it to happen.
My wife was admitted to hospital days before the election, but voted anyway because absentee voting is a thing, and something one would assume a voter would look into after being denied the right to vote once before.
Eh, a Trump scenario was inevitable unless people grew balls and voted for someone like Vermin Supreme. You have to be the first one to vote third party.
Boo. Boo this man.
What a wonderful response, objecting against someone that would have actually voted if Pete would have stayed in the running.
I may not have voted, but I know for a fact I would never vote for the diaper.
Like, why is it always a heads/tails coin decision?
And what the fuck is up with the Electoral College?
By not voting at all, you cemented Trump’s victory.
You don’t get to say “well I wanted it to be different” now.
Do better next time. Do something next time.
No, I didn’t cement any victory, I literally said I didn’t vote. The voters cemented his victory, not me.
Get off your high horse. You did make a choice. You chose to not make a choice.
And with the way that electoral calculus and bias works in the US, not voting is disproportionately harmful to Democratic candidates, and disproportionately helpful to Republican candidates. You helped this happen by not voting.
Well riddle me this…
Since I haven’t had an opportunity to even go through the process of voting, despite trying, waiting for ~2 hours, only to close at 8pm and officers ordered everyone still waiting to leave, I have no experience with the actual process of voting.
So how does the process actually work? From my understanding, unless I’m mistaken, don’t people get to vote on numerous positions at once, not just the president?
Like, I’d be looking at the options and be wondering who half or more of the candidates even are, and also not even being sure exactly what the nature of their job is in the bigger picture, not knowing a damn thing about them to make any educated decision.
Also, from my understanding, in my state, if you vote Democrat, you have to vote all Democrats, and if you vote Republican, you have to vote all Republicans. Like what the hell do names and campaign goals even mean if you don’t have the option to vote Democrat for one office, but might actually like the campaign goals of a Republican for another office?
It’s like what the hell do names even matter, if I’m a registered Democrat voter (which I am), then shouldn’t they already know how I’d vote anyways?
If I’m mistaken on any of this, by all means please let me know. Please be willing to educate inexperienced people as to how the voting process even works before giving them shit for not voting after trying, only for everyone still waiting to get sent home.
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice "
You are a voter and contributed accordingly.
What skin would it have taken for you to just pull the lever for kamala?
Maybe youre saving it for “the one”
I, like most Americans, know we only get one vote! Gotta save it for that perfect candidate!
/S obv
You gotta get in the building first. Back in 2016, me and a friend went to vote. I would have voted Vermin Supreme (legit candidate no less), and my buddy planned on writing in Batman.
We stood in line for around 2 hours. For about the last half hour of waiting it was raining. Around half of everyone knew the weather forecast and had an umbrella, including us.
They closed the voting place (library) down at 8pm sharp, and the cops told everyone in line to go home. We were probably 150~200 people back in line.
We all waited that long, even in the fucking rain, only to be ordered to leave?!
If it matters (which it probably does), our state doesn’t have early voting, you get one day to do it and that’s it.
Wait 2 goddamn hours, partly in the rain, only to get shut down with around 200 people or so waiting to vote?!
Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.
Having worked the polls: if you are in line to vote, you get to vote. The cops do not have any grounds to order you to leave your polling location because it’s “too late”. That is a violation of your rights as a citizen. The correct response is “make me; and if you do, I’ll have your fucking job, officer”.
When the poll workers go home and lock up, what am I supposed to do, break in and turn the machines back on?
The poll workers should have protested, the potential voters couldn’t do shit.
We are not supposed to go home until the fucking vote is finished. When you sign up, it’s made clear that you work until it’s done.
We’re also not supposed to have a felon for president in the first place, he shouldn’t have been eligible to even run for office. But here we are, guess you poll workers didn’t protest that either huh?
You can’t sit and blame people that didn’t vote when the poll workers fucking allowed it to happen.
Sigh. Yeah you’ve got a point. This fucking timeline, man.
Is that what happened in 2024 as well?
He acts as if being actively deterred from voting is a good reason not to vote. Its a troll.
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Nope, I was in a different state that day, unscheduled trip.
My wife was admitted to hospital days before the election, but voted anyway because absentee voting is a thing, and something one would assume a voter would look into after being denied the right to vote once before.
Eh, a Trump scenario was inevitable unless people grew balls and voted for someone like Vermin Supreme. You have to be the first one to vote third party.