US peeps, VOTE.

[napchic]

No, I'm not going to ask you to vote for a certain person, I'm just asking... pleading actually... for you to vote.

Here's why.

There is a genuinely frightening trend sweeping state to state in the US that's  limiting voting access nationwide in the name of voter fraud prevention.
Innocuous sounding, abruptly inacted changes like suddenly requiring a

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[blamebrampton]

Timed voting? TIMED VOTING?! Some days I wonder why I bother writing political satire, because the reality is so much worse: it's as though Orwell and the other greats have been appropriated as how-to guides.

[napchic]

I swear our local tv news people announced state imposed 3 minute voting.

I've found documentation online where the state certainly enforced 3 minute limits in early voting. The state voting guidelines also stayed that if you required assistance during early voting, you had to bring a doctor's letter validating your need of help in order to receive it.

It's fucking madness.

[blamebrampton]

There really are no words. And then these people pretend it's a democracy. Benighted cesspit of corruption and cronyism, more likely.

[tailoredshirt]

an adjacent state has just passed a law that requires voters to complete their ballot within three minutes for it to be valid and allowed to be counted.

I...what? It takes me more than 3 minutes to fill out my ballot (mostly because I care enough to make sure I get it right!) and I don't have any language/reading difficulties, physical disabilities, or conditions that make filling out the ballot difficult. The idea of someone only having 3 minutes when they have any number of reasons to need more time? I want to see the person who came up with this idea personally explain to these people why their vote is worth less than someone else's.

Just when I think it's not possible to be any angrier than I already am...

[napchic]

I screamed at the television. I hope that the 3 minute thing was just for early voting... which is stupid enough, but the anchor said it would be unforced tomorrow. They couched the law as a way to make voting more efficient, or some crap.

And also... EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID. I have average reading comprehension skills and this is my first language and yes, I read every word on the ballot and take forever.

Some documentation I read online said that ballot amendment descriptions would be handed to you in line if requested during early voting, but how many people show up to vote not knowing that? How many people wait in line not knowing about the time limit idiocy?

It's just bonkers as fuck.

[writerwannabe]

I am completely stupid and never changed my address with the NY Board of Elections when I moved

[napchic]

Blurg, good lord. I'm so sorry you won't get to vote. That's shit.

We moved a few blocks just before the last presidential election, and we had to go back home and dig out voter registration cards, bills, and maybe a marriage liscence to get us both a ballot at a poling place we've voted at for 11 years. It's insane.

[writerwannabe]

Fuck it...I voted!!!!!

I used a Affidavit ballot and was only allowed to vote for POTUS and my State Senator (not any of the locals), but I did my civic duty and I will be counted!

[napchic]

Nicely done, you :)
I'm proud of you for finding a way to do it. That's awesome :D

[sherylyn]

I done dood it!!

But I sooo share your rage against The Stoopids, b/c they're just... ARGH.

Somehow, The Stoopids are a *teeny* bit easier to live with (overall) b/c I know that there are also the most awesomest people around, too -- like you!! (There. How's that for looking for the rainbow? [well, sorta ;-)])

[napchic]

:)

It is heartening to know that even if people are capable of ignorant, awful things, they can be and do astonishingly wonderful things, too. :)

*hugs you*

[sherylyn]

TRUTH!!

It would be soooo easy to get so extremely paranoid and disheartened about how prevalent The Stoopids are these days, but at least I can combat that with how awesome others are. (Now if I could just think of a cleverish name for the non-Stoopids! LOL!!)

*HUGS* you too!!

[shygryf]

is is easy to get a state issued ID without passing a driving test. but it does cost the same as a licensee which is $25 some people don't have. sadly no one pointed the cost out to me when i was 19 and naive and voted to require state ID.

[napchic]

It amazes me how subtle some of the new voter suppression regulations can be. I don't blame you for agreeing to the photo ID thinger. I'm sure proponents of it made it sound good.

I've read about states that opted to close early voting on this last Sunday. It sounds pretty straightforward until you find out that the churches in rural or poor urban areas of that state traditionally carpooled people (who might not have easy access to transportation otherwise) over for early voting after church services held on the last Sunday before each election.

It's very subtle, and it's very frustrating.