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No Kings rallies across US urge voters to cast ballots early ahead of midterms (apnews.com)
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[+] -19 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I disagree with this vote early message. Voting early only tells the fascists what margin to cheat by. Vote in person, day of, if possible.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    This is a bad take. No information about your vote should be available to the federal government until after election day.

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    Seven states permit scanning only after the close of polls: Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Illinois, Mississippi, New Hampshire and West Virginia. Ten of these states permit scanning on Election Day, but before the close of polls: Arkansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

    No state allows results from scanned or processed absentee/mail ballots to be released before the close of polls on Election Day.

    And we know this system is pretty robust, otherwise we'd get early vote results for many states just from leaks. I don't see any such leaks reported.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Right, but if a largely dem area is surging in early voting compared to last trump midterm election, its easy enough to extrapolate

    I'm not saying youre wrong, but the logic above is used all the time in early voting by the media to start to guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You're right that everything gives some data, and that data can be used to forecast. But also, this extrapolation has been pretty lousy in the last couple years. As a public, the USA has been pretty good at being unpredictable recently...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    You know they're going to steal it regardless right? I'm not saying don't vote obviously, but as you said, Fascists will cheat, they may not know the margin, but they'll have a pretty good idea by now.

    I'll be very surprised if they even allow you to vote at all, there's very little chance they don't go for martial law, or a declaration of war, whatever it takes to not let you take their power away again. You cannot count on the rule of law to get your country out of this, they've already done away with that.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Which is why folks should vote early. A voting booth is a relatively small point of failure, and the fascists are getting ready to interrupt those.

    They'll then target the ballot stores; those we'll have to protect more directly.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    They're are ready to disrupt your ability to vote at all. What are you lot going to do when they don't let you? Going to fight for your "freedoms" that you're all so proud of, or are you all going to just throw your hands up?

    Because that is the reality you're facing. They've already told you as much if you bothered reading Project 2025, or listened to ANY of the rhetoric they've been spewing since the well before the last election.

    What's the plan when "just vote" doesn't do fuck all to save you? You think 350m Americans are going to stand up, or are they all going to pretend they tried their best to defeat evil fascism that's already taken over their country?

    If you're not prepared to fight for real, you've already lost. Good percentage of the rest of the world don't think you'll fight them at all, because they are exactly what America is. Even if you manage to vote your way out of this, which is very close to a negligible chance currently, do you all understand that the GOP is simply a symptom of the incredibly massive problems your country has to fix? So SO many people are controlling your country it's not even funny, it's incredibly sad.

    Israel, Russia, Billionaires, Corporations etc etc. Fixing the problems that America has baked into it's entire system of governance is going to take a century, if you're lucky.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I think you might benefit from reading about how votes are counted, stored, and tallied. You might also want to look at the size of the US. Fascists are indeed a problem, and the US has a lot of work to do, and there's plenty of reason to feel pessimistic about the public. But if Fascists were capable of coordinating this properly in even a fraction of the states required, they'd have already invaded canada by now. Organizing is hard for everyone.

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