featureless wrote: Mon May 06, 2019 7:13 pm
K9s wrote: Mon May 06, 2019 7:10 pm
featureless wrote: Mon May 06, 2019 6:40 pm
K9s wrote: Mon May 06, 2019 5:30 pm
It is easy to "vote your conscience" in a blue state, I guess.
Nope, not easy despite your correctness on the issues you describe. I haven't managed to get myself to do it outside of primaries (with the exception of last election for CA governor which I left blank--just couldn't vote for Newsom).
We all live in different realities. As a Californian, it really doesn't matter to anybody but me who I vote for because the electoral votes will go to the dem candidate. So perhaps utilizing my vote or highdesert's vote to boost a third party out of statistical insignificance is wise, should we ever hope for more than Clintonesque "progressive" policies. Booker wouldn't be the worst thing to happen by a long shot, but he's hardly going to push the envelope and will certainly do everything in his power to regulate gun ownership.
Yeah, I understand. My voter never mattered until 2017.
I am in a swing Congressional district that stayed GOP by 0.0015% in 2018 (433 votes out of 280,453), so I cannot afford to stay home in 2020. For once, it matters.
That must feel good.
Not when you still lose because the "liberal" half of the district was targeted. The GOP lies and cheats and no one is held accountable.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/po ... -611764666
Gwinnett Co. voters wait for hours after workers forget power cords for the voting machines
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--po ... w32vmrG2I/
Gwinnett County has become ground zero in the fight over alleged voter suppression in Georgia, with voting advocates and civil rights groups homing in on what they’ve deem the “excessive rejection” of absentee ballots.
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regiona ... 8PTrgZlJI/
Nearly one in 10 vote-by-mail ballots have been rejected by Gwinnett County election officials, alarming voting rights groups.
Gwinnett is throwing out far more absentee ballots than any other county in Georgia, according to records from the Secretary of State’s Office.
Problems with rejected ballots are a “red flag” for racial minorities in Gwinnett, where more than 60 percent of residents are Latino, black or Asian, said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director for the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt