Its the primaries over here and its peoples chance to choose who will run on the democratic ticket in the general election. You may not like the two party system or the lack of rank choice voting but this is peoples chance to determine who might take governement positions. I hope no one who throws out the democrats don’t do enough are voting in the primaries because otherwise they are the reason what we get with democrats is what it is. Primaries because its just one party pretty much doubles the value of ones vote and further since they get less turnout it at least doubles it again. So the vote effect is in excess of 3x at a minimum. Citizenship in the us has two repsonsibilities. Voting and jury duty. Both are important to democracy.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    I saw some people on threads in TX who had to wait 2.5 hours in line to vote today. As someone from a real state, where there is never a line in my local neighborhood polling place, that is incomprehensible to me. But you know, voter suppression is a real thing.

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      1 month ago

      That is true and they were floating that bill and you know its so they can follow up with not allowing mail in voting or reducing the time for early voting or some other trump.