Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...

• KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I, like most Americans, know we only get one vote! Gotta save it for that perfect candidate!

  /S obv

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You gotta get in the building first. Back in 2016, me and a friend went to vote. I would have voted Vermin Supreme (legit candidate no less), and my buddy planned on writing in Batman.

  We stood in line for around 2 hours. For about the last half hour of waiting it was raining. Around half of everyone knew the weather forecast and had an umbrella, including us.

  They closed the voting place (library) down at 8pm sharp, and the cops told everyone in line to go home. We were probably 150~200 people back in line.

  We all waited that long, even in the fucking rain, only to be ordered to leave?!

  If it matters (which it probably does), our state doesn’t have early voting, you get one day to do it and that’s it.

  Wait 2 goddamn hours, partly in the rain, only to get shut down with around 200 people or so waiting to vote?!

  Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.

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  • Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.

    Is that what happened in 2024 as well?

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He acts as if people being actively deterred fron voting is a good reason not to vote. Its a troll.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Nope, I was in a different state that day, unscheduled trip.

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        My wife was admitted to hospital days before the election, but voted anyway because absentee voting is a thing, and something one would assume a voter would look into after being denied the right to vote once before.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Having worked the polls: if you are in line to vote, you get to vote. The cops do not have any grounds to order you to leave your polling location because it’s “too late”. That is a violation of your rights as a citizen. The correct response is “make me; and if you do, I’ll have your fucking job, officer”.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When the pill workers go home and lock up, what am I supposed to do, break in and turn the machines back on?

      The poll workers should have protested, the potential voters couldn’t do shit.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We are not supposed to go home until the fucking vote is finished. When you sign up, it’s made clear that you work until it’s done.

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Eh, a Trump scenario was inevitable unless people grew balls and voted for someone like Vermin Supreme. You have to be the first one to vote third party.

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