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Georgia’s early voting first-day turnout already breaks record (georgiarecorder.com)

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[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Don’t believe the naysayers. No matter which state you are in, your vote is important. Extreme Conservatives have been taking over school boards and imposing their agenda on kids.

Offices like Sheriff, Coroner, Secretary of State, Lt Governor, State Representatives, City and County Councils etc. are all important.

Every Vote Counts!!!!!

Many important local races will be decided by less votes than the number of updoots I will receive for this comment.

[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago

Downballot and beyond.

[-] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 112 points 3 days ago

Just please remember: Don't let up until the results are being read. Every vote counts and nothing could be worse than pissing away a win because we got cocky based on some early signs

[-] pmmeyourseedbombs@slrpnk.net 68 points 3 days ago

I believe that’s a good sign?

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 89 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yep. Increased turnout in the states tends to correlate positively with a bluer outcome in a statistically significant fashion. Which is also why the GOP is constantly bleating about “voter fraud” (which is actually vanishingly rare these days, with most instances actually being perpetrated by republican voters trying to “combat” this fictional voter fraud), engaging in electoral fraud and partisan gerrymandering (which is NOT rare, particularly in red states), and generally making it harder for people to vote.

They know that they’re demographically on the losing side, and they’re trying to plug the dam with their fingers.

[-] proudblond@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

I was listening to Jon Stewart’s most recent Weekly Show podcast and he had Stacey Abrams on, and she said that increased voter turnout benefits dems right now because the Republicans have power but have generally unpopular policies, but it has been flipped in the past.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

In Georgia? Definitely. They'd be consistently blue if not for republican ratfucking

[-] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Nah dog. Georgia has some super red areas. The recent swing of the Atlanta suburbs to blue is a very recent phenomenon. Outside of Atlanta, it's all trump country.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

... okay? But early voting has trended blue for a while and especially since 2020. Still think it's good

[-] hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

It is a good sign, I was just saying that Georgia is definitely not for sure blue without interference from Republicans though (they do absolutely interfere though).

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Gotcha. Thanks for keeping me honest

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago

Flush The Turd Again

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 38 points 3 days ago

Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Get. Your. Hands. Off. My. Ballot!

[-] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

And you sir, are you ready to receive my limp ballot?

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 19 points 3 days ago

Can you smell the succulence?

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

I see you know your judo, sah.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I see that you know your judo well.

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

Oh god I’m so close, I’ve been edging this type of news for months, I’m going to turn to dust once I finally pop.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Reading this:

"Raffensperger said his office’s goal at early voting sites and at the 2,400 polling places on Election Day is to have voters spend as little time as possible filling out their ballots. It took the average voter only a few minutes to cast a ballot on Tuesday morning"

from here in Los Angeles, where my ballot was 6 pages long, I'm jealous. I think I could do without having to vote on the judges and Community College Board members, although I guess it offers a wedge into what otherwise could be an old-boy network.

Anyway, my CA ballot has been collected and counted, I got the text today.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Bro I've spent 2 hours so far on my San Francisco ballot and I'm not even done. We had FIFTEEN propositions this election. Twelve people running for school board and I gotta pick 4. Shit is crazy.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

So glad we at least get to do the whole thing at home!

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yes. AND, I grouse about it, but I'm glad we have all these things to vote on. Democracy in action.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Exactly. Of course we could just skip some sections, but I figure it's my duty to at least read up a bit, check the candidates' websites and endorsements and make an informed decision to balance out some idiot who's "filling in the bubbles to make a picture of a penis," as Lewis Black said on the Daily Show last night.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah I opened my ballot saw how thick it was outside of the envelope and said fuck this im doing it later. I am in the Inland Empire what the fuck are we voting on? The positions of bird fondler.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Local positions can be very important

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Page and a half here, and almost all of it was uncontested local elections.

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago

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