let’s gooo

    • jennwiththesea@lemmy.world
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      So help them vote. Volunteer with efforts to get out the youth vote. Push for universal mail in voting where you are, or at least early voting. Help get politicians and initiatives on the ballot that they actually care about.

      Shaming and complaining about the demographic you want to reach accomplishes nothing.

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Obligatory-

        If you are a legal resident of Wisconsin, and are not currently serving time or on paper, you can register to vote entirely online if you want, and you can request absentee ballots for all elections for the entire year (no reason needed, but necessary annual renewal, it’s my New Year’s resolution every year because it’s so easy to accomplish. entirely free of charge ofc.).

        Just go to www.myvote.wi.gov to register, request absentee ballots, check your registration, or find your polling place. If you have any difficulty with your registration, you can find your local rep and contact them directly.

        Please vote. Please vote for your own wellbeing. Please.

        Edits to fix link redirect per convo below

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          This is why I love Washington. Everyone has an OPT OUT absentee ballot. Everyone gets one at your address. Every election. All the time. The same address that’s on your ID. It’s amazing.

            • cally [he/they]@pawb.social
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              i see what happened.

              you typed [www.myvote.wi.gov](www.myvote.wi.gov) in your comment’s source. for it to register as a URL you have to put https before the link inside the parentheses: [www.myvote.wi.gov](https://www.myvote.wi.gov).

              for me it goes to https://pawb.social/post/www.myvote.wi.gov (my instance, error: couldnt_find_post)

              in your comment’s source it is written [www.myvote.wi.gov](www.myvote.wi.gov), which shouldn’t behave like this. looks like a lemmy bug maybe?

              i have two theories:

              1. the bug is related to typing a link directly, as in pasting a link in the comment, like example.com (i typed it without brackets for a name or parentheses for a URL)

              or

              2. it’s related to links explicitly starting with www, such as what you linked.

              for testing purposes:

              www.myvote.wi.gov

              www.myvote.wi.gov

              you can report lemmy issues at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues. i searched on there to see if it was already reported but couldn’t find anything, though if you want to i’d recommend searching.

              • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                Hey thanks, I changed it and that did the trick.

                I guess it makes sense that would be a thing. I’m so used to everything accommodating for that lack, though lol

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          It doesn’t work. Every swiss citizen older than 18 receives them at home. The younger generation doesn’t vote.

          I’m older now and the older I’m the more people of my age around me vote. It’s depressing. I try each time to make the younger vote but it’s not working. And, I didn’t miss one. Next one is the 3rd March. I will try again.

          Don’t take me wrong if I convince if just one younger person, it’s a win.

      • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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        I hope things will change, but we still have abysmal turnout. TX started allowing early voting over 40 years ago and we still struggle to get people to the polls. Early voting is a span of 2 weeks, where in the 1st week, polls are required to be open for at least 9 hours and can be open from 6 AM to 10 PM on the weekday and shortened hours on the weekend, and in the 2nd week, polls are required to be open at least 12 hours a day and typically have the same hours as election day. Yet we still have virtually no lines through all early voting and a massive line on election day.

        It doesn’t help that the news only bangs the final day of voting into peoples’ heads.

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          Many Republicans vote exactly on election day because they are being fed lies that early voting and mail in voting are riddled with fraud.

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            That explains a few people, but doesn’t explain why everyone else hasn’t been utilizing the early voting system for the 40 years prior to 2020. TX cities are pretty blue and their early voting lines are always very short.

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        I’ve been helping my fellow zoomers by figuring out what their townships/town wards/city districts are, then what their local/state/federal legislative/executive/judicial districts are, then who’s running for what position, then where to vote and (primaries and generals).

        Information is power!

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      But both sides are the same or my vote is worthless or it’s too hard to vote or something

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          In Australia it’s always on a Saturday, and it’s compulsory to vote. Works OK for us.

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            that sounds like a way for democracy to actually represent the will of the public. DEFINITELY not what they want in the U.S.

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            In Canada, we get mail in voting, advanced voting and voting stations are everywhere. I’ve never had to wait more than 5 mins to vote and the closet voting station is a 2 min drive from my house. They’re also open late and most employers give us time off to vote. Not sure if there’s a law for that but voting here is easy af yet some people still don’t bother.

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          Which, while a good idea, still screws over the working class that don’t get federal holidays off. In fact in many industries they are mandatory work days because of the increased business.

          State and federal opt-out mail ballots for all I say.

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        if you think both parties are the same you’re living in a fkn alternate reality. Only one part is seeking to end democracy in America and set up reeducation camps