Voting matters people. The big name races for president, senate, etc don’t have nearly as much impact on your day to day life as local races and your vote has significantly more impact the smaller the race.
All those shit hole red states that are passing crazy legislation? That’s because conservatives spent the last few decades focused on state congresses and it worked extremely well. It’s going to take at least that level of commitment. Put up good progressive candidates every primary (and fucking vote for them) and vote Democrat in the general election. That’s the only path that leads to change. You cannot get away from the 2 party system without eliminating FTTP voting and the only party that will allow that is the Democratic party. Voting 3rd party or abstaining from voting because Democrats “need to earn your vote” does nothing but make it worse.
“yeah but biden doesn’t make me feel tingly in my pants so im just gonna vote for jill stein and may she’ll win this time and then fix all of my problems”
This reminds me of the fact that a significant number of January 6th insurrectionists didn’t vote at all.
To be fair, they believe in dictatorship, rather than power-determined-by-getting-votes.
Mr. Roth, a landfill manager and father of four, ran a campaign. He canvassed voters, handed out yard signs and marched in the town’s parade in August. Mr. Green, an auto body technician whose household includes six children, chose not to campaign, trusting that voters would remember his stances from a previous run.
Good. If you care so little you aren’t going to even vote for yourself, you don’t deserve to hold elected officer.
Dude just tried to coast into office. Sad. Also it said there was a primary, but ballotpedia said it was a nonpartisan election?
Primaries aren’t always partisan. I think WA uses a top-two system for primaries.
“I demand a recount!”
“Okay. One for Martin, two for Martin.”Too bad this doesn’t work for pres votes.
Quite a few states came out only a few tens of thousands of votes apart last time. It’s worth reading up on candidates all the way down the ballot before voting.
It’s almost impossible for many small towns to have sufficient coverage on candidates running for small offices. We’re often completely in the dark about who’s running, unless they’ve been In office already and town meetings that give us a hint about their views. Most just put wishy-washy bullshit on a Facebook page with nothing else on it when they run.
I have avoided a few bad votes by finding twitter accounts of these assholes, but it’s rare in the last couple local elections.
At least where I am, the League of Women Voters holds candidate forums for city council and school board. A no-show at these means people won’t vote for you, so any credible candidate ends up on the record on at least a few key issues.
2000 election that gave us George W Bush came down to only 537 votes in one state. Assuming you believe the totals which… Yeah. Thanks Florida. Anyways point is it was very very close.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The two were competing for a seat on the City Council in Rainier, a community of approximately 2,400 people about 16 miles southeast of the state capital, Olympia.
Mr. Green, an auto body technician whose household includes six children, chose not to campaign, trusting that voters would remember his stances from a previous run.
After clearing a primary election, the two candidates met at a public forum with sitting City Council members.
“I ran for other people, not for me,” he said, adding that at the public forum before the Nov. 7 vote, he learned that he and Mr. Roth held similar views.
The race for Rainier City Council was part of Thurston County elections, which included a countywide proposition to raise sales taxes to give law enforcement funding a boost.
In the last instance of a tie, Thurston County favored a coin toss — which Mr. Green said could have ended his bid for the council seat with the same outcome.
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