The smart thing is to vote early and avoid the ruckus the stupider people will inevitably create around polling places on November 5.
See vote.gov for details
If you have the opportunity, vote-by-mail is genuinely awesome also. I qualify in my state because I’m chronically ill, and it’s one of the few silver linings. I get a ballot in the mail every time an election happens like clockwork, I have time to do my research and it’s significantly harder to forget.
In California you no longer need to apply for vote-by-mail, they mail a ballot to everyone and you can either mail it back, no stamp needed, or drop it in any ballot box, or take it to any polling place on the day to hand it to a person.
It’s so much better to be able to sit there at a computer or on your phone, looking up the candidates for the smaller offices and marking them as you go.
And you can get phone notifications for when your ballot is received and counted.
Oregon too. There’s also a service where you just give it your voting registration details and an email address and it emails you:
- when your ballot is mailed to you
- when it is received back from you
The MAGAs are attacking the election system in my state (Georgia) so hard that, at this point, I’m starting to worry about mail-in ballots being fraudulently thrown out because of false claims of signature mismatch.
If you do it early enough, it shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve had my vote thrown out because of signature and I just had to confirm it was me. Georgia is gonna Georgia though, they’re going to try stuff at the live polls too.
I voted in Colorado a couple years back. I had moved here several months before. I had all the documents to prove residency. 3 months after the election, I got a letter saying that a (conservative asshole) group had challenged my vote and it was thrown out, and was told I could go to court and prove I was legal to vote but also if I did so it threatened me with jail or fines if it didn’t work. It was 3 months after the election and it had all been counted already, so why tf would I do that?
Yeah, I plan to do in-person early voting rather than take my chances with mail-in voting.
Yeah I live in a state turned red by gerrymandering and brain drain (Ohio) and I won’t vote by mail because I’m not certain it’ll be counted if the legislature doesn’t like what the mail votes do. Our legislators love ignoring our votes.
This is automatic in WA state, and I absolutely love it. Never missed a local or federal election.
During covid my state allowed anyone to sign up for permanent mail in voting ans I love it. Wish every state had it. It’s so convienent.
It’s also a hell of a lot more convenient to fill out a ballot at your kitchen table. You can look up all those downballot no-names you have never heard of.
This is actually one of the reasons they are against mail in or drop off ballots. Educated voters scare the shit out of them.
Remember remember the 5th of November. Gunpowder treason and plot.
Sounds about right for ol Orangeman
Remember, remember this fifth of November
The insurrection, incitement, and plot.
I see no reason
That Donald Trump’s treason
Should ever be forgot.
I know of no reason the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot
Nov 5th is election day.
Well, if that’s not foreshadowing. US Election Day = Guy Fawkes Day.
Trump wouldn’t know who Guy Fawkes is. US Election Day falls on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. It’s just a coincidence it happens to be the 5th this year. My comment was mostly a direct reply to OP.
NOVEMBER 5TH WILL BE ONE OF THE DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA!
FEBRUARY 30TH WILL NOT BE!
AND FEBRUARY 29TH IS THIS YEAR BUT NOT THE NEXT OR THE ONE AFTER THAT UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION YEAR
Maybe not next year but there was one year, in one country. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
Is Trump on Twitter again?
Yes, elon reversed his permanent ban
And also Trump promised he’d never use Twitter again. So obviously he’s back on, despite the great success of his own platform
The $45 million a month Elon is giving his superPAC helps
*promised to give. Anyone following self-driving cars over the last decade knows Elon’s promises are worth nothing.
Did he not back out of that less than a month after he announced it
I hadn’t read that but I wouldn’t be surprised.
He’s not using Twitter, he’s using X
Hope that clears it up 🤗
Oh God, that emoji made me think of his accordion hand gestures. Was that the intention? It’s ruined forever
Oh god I see it too! Not intended, I just use that emoji when I’m being silly
Trump has never kept a promise in his life. His words are literally meaningless. The fact that anyone follows him is preposterous. Yet, here we are.
He did that months ago. Trump just had a noncompete with Truth Social that ran out which restricted him from posting anywhere else.
Lol, he doesn’t even own his own network, yet people think he’s a master businessman?
The ban was reversed months ago, that’s correct. Trump just recently started posting though. Iirc his deal with truth social was that he could post to other platforms, but he needed to wait 6 hours after posting on trutg before doing so.
He’s waiting for the 6 month mandatory period to expire, when he will dump ihs DJT stock and make an absolute killing. Maybe finally become an actual billionaire.
Then he will be back on shitter full time. Payoff for fElon will be more users on his site, while Truth Social folds.
Shut the fuck up. That kind of language is how Stephen Fry gets killed.
Don’t worry, he’ll just have to do some boring fundraiser and in the meantime he’ll have the highest ratings.
Even more of a coincidence is that the recent UK general election was held on 4th July!
D for Dementia
That’s good enough for me!
Well if there’s no consequences, he’s gonna do it again. Every parent to a toddler knows this.
I think he needs a loooong timeout.
When he was tweeting for his followers to amass and how it was going to get “wild” (from memory I think that’s what he said) on January 6th long in advance I was freaked out but everyone said that was not a big deal.
I still doubt anyone will see this as a big deal the second time :/
YOuRe bEiNg AlArMisT!
Holy shit!! He said something that I actually agree with. I didn’t think that would ever happen.
VOTE!!! Volunteer to give rides to those that wouldn’t be able to vote without it. Anything you can do, it will make a difference.
The FBI do not care about you at all.
They’re too busy shutting down Torrent sites for their corporate owners.
New Zealand citizen Kim Dotcom has entered the chat.
The FBI gives a shit because Trump has threatened to overhaul their whole dept.
I mean yea? It’s election day for an election that I think both sides consider pretty important. Granted, that’s a bit of hyperbole, but this is a far cry from a call to violence. Harris could say the exact same thing, in fact she’s likely has said something similar.
Saying this is a threat isn’t just an overreaction, it’s downright embarrassing. This is the kind of crap the right shares to try and paint Dems as weak, thin-skinned, idiots.
Trump says so much awful shit that warrants this reaction, but not EVERYTHING does FFS.
Woosh
Is there a joke I’m missing?
Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament
Three score barrels of powder below
Poor old England to overthrow
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys
God save the King!
Nevermind, missed the post title
IDK if a joke, but it’s a reference to the gunpowder plot.
Maybe the comments here are, but the original tweet has literally zero reference to it. There is no joke in the original tweet, just pearl clutching.
It’s the title of the post? The fifth of November is Guy Fawkes day, Gunpowder Plot.
Ah yea, missed the post title. My bad.
I think that’s their point, that the joke is flimsy to begin with
Yeah, that’s what I originally assumed, but their response didn’t make sense.
Yes… November 5th is the gunpowder plot anniversary made famous (again in NA by the movie V For Vendetta)
Yes. Your reaction is a bit dramatic.
Get ready for armed dip shits at polling stations across America
Itll be the most relieving day since we’ll finally be rid of his sorry ass
As much as I want to believe you, I don’t think we’ll be rid of him till he shuffles off the mortal coil. His cult is too large and too loud.
Sometimes I worry about what they’ll do after he joins the choir invisible. Messiah cults don’t just go away when their messiah has ceased to be.
I’m sure one of his progeny will take up the grift
Can’t be Barron, the Lakers still need a center, Junior and Eric are extremely stupid and will cause their fathers voters to turn away to different republicans, and the other are women, making them a no go.
I know youre joking but it would be funny if Barron became a respected basket ball player or something and seperated himself from his fathers legacy. I really do hope the kid has good luck, he shouldnt be burdened by the crimes of his father.
Every story about him is funny, man is insanely tall, reportedly good at soccer, and refused to touch politics and instead plays games on his phone or skips rallies to hang out with his girlfriend.
Well, he did say he would leave the country if he lost. Now knowing him to be the pathological liar he is, you could well have a point but i guarantee he’ll be walking on thin ice if he stays.
He said we’d never hear from him again if Biden won and that was a fucking lie.
There’s no way the counting will be done that day. I expect it to take a week before the results are clear but still several recounts
