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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 3, 2021 3:23:55 GMT
In our county, we have roughly 375,000 registered voters.
100% of the ballots are in.
We had a D vs R congressional representative race today.
Out of the 375,000 registered voters, only 8,300 voted. That’s what? Not quite 2.25% of registered voters voting???
Is that fucking shameful or what?
So 2.25% decided for the entire district.
(Good thing is that the D rep won with 68% of the votes)
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Post by sassyangel on Nov 3, 2021 3:32:26 GMT
In our county, we have roughly 375,000 registered voters. 100% of the ballots are in. We had a D vs R congressional representative race today. Out of the 375,000 registered voters, only 8,300 voted. That’s what? Not quite 2.25% of registered voters voting??? Is that fucking shameful or what? So 2.25% decided for the entire district. (Good thing is that the D rep won with 68% of the votes) Wow. Coming from a country that has compulsory(at all levels of government) voting, that kind of apathy blows my mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2021 13:20:30 GMT
I say it all the time....
In a democracy (even in its last days) you get the government you vote for OR CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO VOTE AGAINST.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 3, 2021 13:32:09 GMT
We had a vote to renew an expiring school levy on our ballot, and the anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-tax naysayers were out in full force before Election Day hoping to convince people to vote it down. While it didn’t pass by a landslide, thankfully there are enough people who care about having an educated populace in my area that made the effort to go out and vote so it did pass. And even more importantly, the total nutter who was trying to organize a last minute write in campaign for the open school board seat lost handily.  |
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Post by peano on Nov 3, 2021 14:35:49 GMT
Our local election was a shitshow. Overwhelming Republican wins, including a 3-person contingent of “get our kids back in school anti-maskers” that included a much-loved retired middle school teacher who held “Blue Lives Matter” signs on a major intersection for days during the George Floyd summer. Several Democratic incumbents lost, including a good friend of mine. As local elections go, so goes the country. The Dems better get their shit together…
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Post by dawnnikol on Nov 3, 2021 14:47:48 GMT
Our local election was a shitshow. Overwhelming Republican wins, including a 3-person contingent of “get our kids back in school anti-maskers” that included a much-loved retired middle school teacher who held “Blue Lives Matter” signs on a major intersection for days during the George Floyd summer. Several Democratic incumbents lost, including a good friend of mine. As local elections go, so goes the country. The Dems better get their shit together… I hear you. We lost 3 of our 7 school board seats to people running on anti-CRT / pro-parent choice. One of them is really close, the one who doxxed a teacher on social media for a book in her classroom is winning by 30-something votes. She's already claimed victory, but it's still a tough loss all around. Our district has been in national news for all sorts of racist crap this semester alone. It's disheartening and frustrating. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2021 15:17:44 GMT
I'm seeing similar numbers. In a district with less than 15,000 registered voters, just over 2,000 of them decided the fate of a school bond that would've meant fixing the very problems many people were complaining about (poor heating and cooling, lack of windows that opened, broken tiles, etc) and shot it down. Public comments included "good, you need to use what you have instead of building a new school" and "they're not worth the money."
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Post by kiera on Nov 3, 2021 15:50:20 GMT
One of NYC's mayoral candidates has 16 cats in his 320 square foot apartment and he tried to bring one of them into his polling place when he went to vote. He lost by a landslide, though really no one expected him to win anyway. I'm not thrilled with who did win, we did ranked choice voting in the primary and he was none of my choices. But we're keeping Gracie Mansion blue, at least.
It's baffling to me that New York voted against all of the initiatives that would make voting easier and more accessible....
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