#voting
#Dr. #Merritt interviews #KarladineGraves MD about her work on election integrity, and specifically the electronic algorithm to steal elections. Digits on a #computer #voting...
A quotation from Watterson, Bill
CALVIN: When I grow up, I’m not going to read the newspaper and I’m not going to follow complex issues and I’m not going to vote. That way I can complain when the government doesn’t represent me. Then, when everything goes down the tubes, I can say the system doesn’t work and justify my further lack of participation.
HOBBES: An ingeniously self-fulfilling plan.
CALVIN: It’s a lot more fun to blame things than to fix them.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-05-18)
#quote #quotes #quotation #blame #civicduty #government #participation #responsibility #voting #complaint #apathy
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4072/
A quotation from Chomsky, Noam
Another point of disagreement [with Lesser Evil Voting] is not factual but involves the ethical/moral principle […] sometimes referred to as the “politics of moral witness.” Generally associated with the religious left, secular leftists implicitly invoke it when they reject LEV on the grounds that “a lesser of two evils is still evil.” Leaving aside the obvious rejoinder that this is exactly the point of lesser evil voting — i.e. to do less evil, what needs to be challenged is the assumption that voting should be seen a form of individual self-expression rather than as an act to be judged on its likely consequences. […] The basic moral principle at stake is simple: not only must we take responsibility for our actions, but the consequences of our actions for others are a far more important consideration than feeling good about ourselves.
Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) American linguist and activist
“An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)” (2016-06-15) [with John Halle]
#quote #quotes #quotation #candidate #choice #consequences #election #evil #lesseroftwoevils #moralchoice #morality #responsibility #selfexpression #voting
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/chomsky-noam/43802/
A quotation from Lincoln, Abraham
The people — the people — are the rightful masters of both Congresses, and courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1859-09-16), Columbus, Ohio
#quote #quotes #quotation #checksandbalances #citizenry #congress #Constitution #courts #democracy #people #voting #wethepeople
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/39417/
A quotation from Solnit, Rebecca
Build movements. Vote with your values, but vote strategically. Voting isn’t a Valentine. It’s a chess move.
Rebecca Solnit (b. 1961) American writer, historian, activist
Facebook (2016-10-17)
#quote #quotes #quotation #candidate #chess #compromise #election #meme #politics #strategy #valentine #vision #vote #voting
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/solnit-rebecca/43705/
Adding salt to this wound would be the final votes in all the "red states" are the ones most contested by MAGA.
♲ ProPublica - 2024-11-04 18:36:23 GMT
#Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” #Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.
==In a private video training session, a top #Pennsylvania #Republican National Committee official reassured a new poll watcher that undocumented people could not possibly vote in the state.#News #Election2024 #DonaldTrump #RNC #GOP #Video #Politics #Government #Immigration
#usa #voting #vandalism
This is not Disneyland. US authorities don't have enough sense to safeguard ballot boxes.
Hundreds of ballots damaged after ballot box set on fire in Washington state: Officials
The incident is believed to be connected to two others in Washington and Oregon.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ballot-box-set-fire-west-coast-portland-oregon/story?id=115221030
An organization has novel way to get members to vote. But is it legal?
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5156313
In America, we encourage voting as a civic duty, but an organization with millions of members is taking that obligation a step further. It’s requiring members to vote — or potentially lose their membership and the financial benefits that come with it.
#election #usa #vote #voting #voter-intimidation #neighborhood-assistance-corporation-of-america #naca
To the #leftists out there. You don't owe #liberals your vote, you don't owe them a damned thing, but you do owe #trans people, #disabled people, #LGBT people, #women, and disenfranchised people your vote. If you think Not #voting or voting #3rdparty will protect them then go ahead but if you have been paying attention to the election and the past presidency at all, you know that anything but a #Vote for #Harris will mean actively hurting all of these people. Both sides are complicit in genocide, but Trump will be even worse & everything I mentioned AND we will blow past 2C. this is not about voting FOR anyone. Its about making a chess move to protect as many people as possible. #Project2025 has people ready to hit the ground running to immediately start actively hurting these people. Also have fun losing all overtime pay, suckers.
#accelerationism is truly the only argument #leftists have for not #voting in the US, but they also don't have anything to replace our current system or the numbers educated to do so, meaning those who will fill that power vacuum when Trump replaces the final supreme court members will be the #fascists, fascists love to stoke anti-voting as plants in lefty circles because it benefits them directly.
#Vote #accelerationism
Fighting for the Right to Vote: Voting Rights Act of 1965 | US History | Extra History
This Explains A Lot... and Shows Some Things That Are Happening AGAIN in Republican States
Don't try this at home. There are laws about cameras in voting places.
♲ Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote - 2024-10-01 01:15:33 GMT
si.com/fannation/wrestling/dav…#DaveBautista:
"Made my #freedom heard. #Voting early took me 20 mins—no excuses. Freedom isn’t something we just talk about; it’s something we act on. Do your part, get out there, and #vote. Your voice matters, and this #election’s too important to sit out vote.gov #VoteEarly #LoveAmericaAgain"
