Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often?

• 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.

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  • 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

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    • 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…

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• Countess425@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Must be nice.

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• rsuri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait what? And that sort of things is legal? Technically no, if it can be proven that the goal is racial discrimination specifically. Every so often there’s a lawsuit claiming just that. Problem is, due to the way federal judges are chosen and confirmed in the US, combined with how the Senate is apportioned, the vast majority of federal judges are in the “lets make it hard to vote” party.

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  • 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…

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• 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.

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