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VOTEThere is absolutely no excuse for eligible voters not to vote, no matter what your reason for not voting is, if you don't vote things can get worse, and will get worse if you allow the likes of Trump and McConnell to continue making them worse.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Remember, gun stores are now emptying out too and those fuckers are paranoid as fuck. Talk of any stimulus that involves sending checks to American citizens ALREADY has them screaming communism and socialism and angry. We might not even have a country by then with that many paranoids out for blood like they are. They are blood thirsty.
Trump is now calling himself a "wartime president" too. I wonder if he will allow an election in November.
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Most of Trump's nastiest and worst in his administration are tied to NC. NC was told, by the courts, that these gerrymandered districts were done "with surgical precision" to disenfranchise minority voters. I am in a district that was one of the districts that made no sense and was gerrymandered to hell and back. This new district literally has a few households in one county JUST to make the district predominantly Republican and has a different number now JUST to ensure we no longer have a Democrat to represent a largely Democratic area.
On top of that, my state is a state that wanted to make Christianity the OFFICIAL religion of this state. I'm not done. My state wanted to make a law that people have to use a bathroom based on what some jackass put on their birth certificate as their gender at birth and in this state that is not always a health professional. On top of that, my state is a state that had to RE DO the primaries because some asshole Republican (Harris) had his people go around and steal absentee ballots directly from households and then not turn them in. He got not even a slap on the wrist for that and they, the GOP, got to pick a new batch of candidates, mid-race.
Remember Blackwater? Yeah, they came from here. The guy who ran Blackwater has a sister who is in charge of education, nationwide, nowadays. Half of the top and most corrupt leaders of the GOP are from here. The worst of the worst of the Tea Party started and still flourishes here.
I don't have any faith in the election system in my state. The corruption is tied directly in so many ways to the Trump admin that I have even less faith in any election we have until all of that crap is fixed. I am not holding my breath waiting for ANY of it to be fixed. We are screwed. No matter how I vote, the GOP has it set up so that we will be screwed and they will keep their power. I despise them more than anyone can possibly imagine.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Your state BOE is tasked with setting; operating and maintaining elections in your state.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)My state was cited as gerrymandering our districts "with surgical precision" to disenfranchise minority voters. I don't have faith in the NCBOE to do anything right or by the rules.
at140
(6,110 posts)Be safe!
dem4decades
(11,284 posts)WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)according to everything I read, it will die down, flare-up, die down and flare-up again. That will hit right around election day. Big deal.