85 days until Nov 3. But it’s time to check your registration and if needed, request your Absentee Ballot. Rock the Vote has state by state information on mail-in voting here. Check your rules. Know what you can do if your ballot never arrives. Find out if you can drop off your ballot instead of …
Voter Suppression
Open Thread: Voting By Mail
Voting by mail for dummies I thought I’d spell it out and you can tell your skeptical Trump-supporting, voter-suppression-loving friends and family how simple it is. Colorado has had all mail-in ballots since 2013. Boulder county for longer. You can still go to the polls on election day to vote or just turn in …
Stopping the GOP Cheat to Win Strategy
I oscillate regularly between optimism and pessimism about the upcoming election. If you’re on Team Don’t Drink Bleach, then Trump must go, of course, but the composition of Congress is everything too. Whether we get an opportunity to take a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to the orange shit-stain in the White House, pass legislation that …
Stopping the Suppression
Here’s Paul Waldman at The Post, riffing off The Times’ coverage today about a Republican program to field 50,000 (possibly armed) thugs to “monitor polling places” in November: Voter suppression is at the very heart of Republican electoral strategy, and, as the New York Times reports Monday, they plan to go all-out in November: The …
Wisconsin Needs Our Help
(Iron Brigade Forward – 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Led By General John Reynolds – Battle Of Gettysburg painting by Mark Maritato) Earlier today the US Supreme Court, which has cancelled oral arguments for the first time since the 1918 FT Riley flu pandemic and can’t figure out how to use Zoom, Google hangouts, or the secure …
Voter Purge: Check Your Registration
I made a video this morning about the importance of voting and then got turned away because I wasn’t in the system even though I’ve voted there for 11 years, including for myself four times! Go figure, but that’s okay. We’ll be back later today! #Vote #KCMO pic.twitter.com/3mYNrO6jmC — Mayor Q (@QuintonLucasKC) March 10, 2020 …
Open Thread: Voter Information At Your Fingertips
I had asked in the comments a few days ago if anyone had a site where you could check your voter registration without entering your email. I wanted to post on FB and I knew I had some folks who would be reluctant to give their email, knowing they’d be inundated with donation and other …
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