drst:
Tweet via Steve Marmel reads:
Ignore all polls.
Register.
Get a friend to register.
Get a non voter to promise to vote.
Stay in touch.
Get all your IDs in order.
Re-check all your registrations close to Election Day.
Plan your day around this vote.
Vote in packs.
We have ONE SHOT.
311 days.
#FlipTheHouseNow more than ever, it’s so important to vote.
The general election is only 131 days away.
Please make sure you are registered!
I love the outreach this post is instilling. However, what do you do if:
a) Your area has no candidates for the position you seek to “affect change” (sic) toward?
b) You are a minority voice within the district you are voting within?
b2) There’s no chance you’d flip seats with numbers alone (short of allowing the dead to vote.)c) Gerrymandering.
When you vote it’s not just congress. It’s for school board members, judges, party representatives for your state.
Nobody knows you exist UNLESS YOU VOTE.
I’m a minority voter in my state. My party won the mayoral election. My party has won the governor election before. Imagine how many people in your area feel the same way as you and don’t vote because they feel like it doesn’t matter. Imagine what could happen if they showed up. If you don’t vote nothing changes. If you do at least there’s a chance. People are depending on people like you the most.
Local positions—school board members, county commissioners, trustees, and so forth—are highly important. Not only do they affect your district, they are where future state senators and representatives come from. Research them as much as you can, and then support the progressive ones. (Even if they’re not as progressive as you’d like.)
The local Democratic party website, or the Indivisible movement, are both places to start your research. Check social media—candidates often have a presence on twitter and facebook.
The thing about gerrymandering is that it works by making sure several districts have a narrow majority, where it should probably be one or two districts with a stronger majority. But if progressives come out in force, that narrow majority might just be defeated.
*sings*
Ninety-five days till we vote on them all, ninety-five days till we vote!
Go to polls, beat an orange clown,
Ninety-four days till we vote on them all!!
LOCAL ELECTIONS MAY BE DECIDED BY A SINGLE VOTE.
A Virginia state legislature election was lost to a Republican by a single god damned vote.
YOUR VOTE MATTERS. EVERY VOTE MATTERS.
love galore 