Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often?
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 months agoTo discourage people from voting. As was pointed out elsewhere, the Republicans only really flourish when a small number of people vote. So they make it as inconvenient as possible for people who are lower income, usually people of colour.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Wait what? And that sort of things is legal? Are you serious? You know, there are countries where voting is obligatory, and others where it is made as easy as possible.
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Wait til you learn about Gerrymandering. I’ll not get into it in depth, but essentially the local/state government in the US will set up voting regions to guarantee that one party has a massive advantage.
stoned_ape@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bruh the shit going on in Ohio this election cycle where LaRose has reworded (see also the abortion amendment where his “summary” was longer than the actual text of the amendment) the ballot to obfuscate the actual intent of Issue 1 to make people vote No which helps consolidate the Republicans grip
It’s ridiculous. My wife is relatively intelligent and she doesn’t understand the wording on the ballot and I explained to her that despite the reading, a No vote will continue the status quo. Like I’m a free speech kind of guy but just put the damn text on the damn ballot like don’t bullshit us Frankie!
Fuckin schmucks
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
But if they don’t do everything they can to obfuscate the ramifications of voting No then everyone would vote Yes!
They know what they’re doing is against the wishes of the majority, otherwise they would put the choices in plain language, or weight the obfuscation the other way…
Countess425@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Must be nice.
rsuri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Reading this discussion has made me understand a little bit better why America seems to be always on fire…
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
That’s cool but the post was clearly about the USA where we have made voting a miserable fucking experience.