#protest votes

[nokingsonlyfooles]

“It’s my hope, Mr. President, that you listen to us, that you choose democracy over tyranny.” - Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn Mayor and Voter

YES! I can't fuckin' believe the media accurately reported this as a protest and printed/publicized the words of the voters explaining why they did it. AND NOBODY HAD TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE! This is big and it could get even bigger! But it's a qualified bigness, because...

Walz, a major supporter of Biden’s reelection campaign, said Michigan’s “uncommitted” results were a healthy demonstration of democracy. “I think they feel passionate, as they should, about an issue we all care about,” Walz said, adding that he expected most protest voters would eventually return to Biden’s side in a likely November rematch with former President Donald Trump, who himself has struggled with college-educated voters and suburbanites in his ongoing Republican primary against former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. “I’m much more convinced there’s a chance bringing those folks home is much greater than bringing the ‘Never Trump’ folks back home,” Walz said.

Yeah. I know this song and dance. I've seen it happen in person, at protests, in reatime. They come out to "do voter outreach" and they're all smiles to start. "Yes! Please do continue to act upon your freedom of speech in a way I, an advocate for the status quo, find nonthreatening. Your feelings are valid, ha-ha! I expect nothing to change, and indeed I will act to change nothing, but good for you!" A few folks always believe the message has been received and quiet down, that's why they do it. But wait and see what happens to that smile when a few people start interrupting and yelling, "THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"

At least this guy's willing to suggest Biden would pick up more votes by moving left than moving right, although I doubt he actually expects anything radical. A few more forgiven student loans or somewhat cheaper drugs aren't much of a problem, and that's leftist too! So we don't really have to worry about the ongoing genocide.

The thing is, if/when this picks up momentum and the DNC starts to think they might have to change something or lose, it will become something other than a positive demonstration of free speech. It'll be childish tantrum-throwing, pointless, uncivil, attention-whoring, astroturfed, counterproductive foreign interference, and whatever else sounds bad. If any of you out there in internet-land already feel threatened by it, you're probably saying that right now. (Go ahead and comment, you'll boost this with other people who think like you, and I might change some minds.)

And, if you are comfortable with it and want voters to do it instead of threatening to withhold votes from Biden in the general, check your privilege. Not every state offers this. Unless something changes real fast (at least, I THINK it hasn't changed, it's hard to do a search when "uncommitted" brings up SO MANY news articles about Michigan 😁), mine won't. I can't do this. I can't vote in a third party primary either. It'd be all blue or nothing. And neither of those things will get me any press, so I gotta keep talking. Maybe I'll motivate someone who can vote uncommitted! Or scare a politician! I still think I'm doing more good by staying alive, and I'm a bit distant from any property I might meaningfully damage (although I am open to suggestions that won't get me arrested and silenced), so this is the only thing I got that won't injure a human being.

Tumblr, no matter how you actually intend to vote, if you're not up for living in a two-party system where both parties think they can do a little genocide and stay in power, you have ways of making yourself heard. There are options beyond falling in line behind the lesser evil. Don't let anyone tell you there aren't. And when you start hearing "stop!" or "you can't!" that means you have something they want. A cessation of hostilities! Well, now you might be in a position to negotiate terms! Don't give up!

Please, please, please don't give up. There is so much to be done.

#us news #us elections #michigan primary #protest votes #protest #democracy #democrats #democratic party #palestine #genocide #resist #nonviolent resistance #uncommitted

[aunti-christ-ine]

#uncommitted #protest votes

[virovac]

Do not write "Gaza" as a protest vote in these states Primary for president for these states

Seeing articles suggesting that in Illinois, but protest votes like that aren't counted in many states

To register a non-Biden vote in the tallies [ of aCategory 4: No Uncommitted Option, Most Write-Ins Not Counted, Blank Ballots Not Counter], you have to vote for someone pre-approved by the state, whether that be a named candidates on the ballot or a qualified write-in candidate. For most states, this leaves you with Dean Phillips and/or Marianne Williamson if you want your vote to count. Feel free to choose between the two at your own discretion, although you can always vote for another listed candidate or even pick someone from your state’s list of qualified write-in candidates if you really want to avoid voting for either of them.

note I found one contradicting opinion to my source

ReadingRambo Mar 3 Hold on. Blank ballots do count for something in Category 4 and 5. Because President isn’t the only race on the ballot. If I vote on all the other lines but not that one, my other votes count. If Biden gets fewer votes than his fellow Dems downballot, that shows up. And it might actually be really important: it’s looking increasingly likely that people will do this in the general. I know I will. SHARE ettingermentum Mar 3Author That’s a little more abstract I think. The idea here is replicating the Michigan thing—i.e., reducing his percentage. ReadingRambo Mar 3 It still matters! Don’t rob us of our agency! I promise you they’ll notice. Ballot underhang gets attention.

Something I am unsure of:

[although you can always vote for another listed candidate (unsure what this means, would I put in a senator candidate or something as a protest vote? Or do some states have extra candidates exclusive to that state?)]

I have been unable to find a list of qualified write-in candidates for my state but maybe you can? I can understand wanting to do so if Dean Phillips is too conservative and in past voted along Biden's lines. Leaving blank might also be an option so long as vote for locals as stated above... [Or if any others are an option as a state exclusive presidential candidate as discussed above]

March 19th: Arizona (D and M), Illinois (D and M), Ohio (Dean only) April 23rd: Pennsylvania (Dean only) May 14th: Nebraska (Dean only), West Virginia (Dean only)

Here's sorted by alphabetical state

Here is sorted by date

Always look at a sample primary ballot ahead of time for this year.

and states without writeins

States/Territories Without Write-ins

March 23rd: Louisiana (Both Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson on ballot)

May 7th: Indiana (No D or M or anyone else.)

June 4th: South Dakota (Both Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson on ballot)

June 8th: Guam (Candidate list currently unavailable)

#protest votes #Illinois primary 2024 #Arizona primary 2024 #Ohio primary 2024 #voting #Pennsylvania primary 2024 #Nebraska primary 2024 #West Virginia primary 2024 #protest vote

[catsarecoolstudios]

From the linked article:

"As expected, the picture statewide was more mixed. Overall, more than 100,000 people voted uncommitted. Some commentators have pointed out that that is not all that different from the 11 percent who voted uncommitted statewide in 2012. But there are significant differences between the two elections.

In 2012, the Obama campaign was actively discouraging its supporters from voting in the primary since delegates were actually awarded via the state’s caucus. Partly as a result of that, turnout was unusually low. Fewer than 200,000 people voted in the 2012 Democratic primary, compared to more than 1.2 million in 2016 and 2020, and more than 750,000 this year."

#uncommitted #protest votes #michigan #mother jones magazine #free palestine #link #current events #democratic party

[nientedal]

What progress at home has biden enacted? What policies of his show that he is making progress that prove he is actually different than trump?

I like to pretend I have faith in humanity, so I'll answer as if you're asking this in good faith.

Biden's DEA has lifted restrictions on telehealth prescriptions to make appointments and assistance more accessible.

He put a funding package into place to help unhoused people get access to mental and physical healthcare, as well as short-term and long-term housing.

He has attempted and is still attempting to get student debt relief through - this was blocked by Republican judges appointed by Trump, but he's still working on it.

Infrastructure repair - his administration has budgeted funds to actually fix some severely-damaged and frequently-traveled bridges.

Trying to expand access to healthcare to include undocumented immigrants who came to the USA as children (Dreamers) under the Affordable Care Act. Support for Navigator programs and outreach has also been increased.

He has vetoed Republican-led bills that were attempting to overturn environmental protections - one that would have forbidden investment fund managers to consider climate change in their portfolios (I have two degrees in accounting and this is actually huge), and another that would have overturned restrictions on agricultural runoff into our waterways.

He and his administration worked for ages to get rail workers paid sick days.

This is just some of what he's been doing. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans want to criminalize the lives of LGBT people like you and me. They want to eliminate no-fault divorce and force births that will kill parents or devastate them financially. They have stated flat out that they want to install a military dictatorship in the USA. They attempted to put that in motion on January 6th, 2021. They failed once. They will do better next time.

One party wants to house the homeless and expand social safety nets, while the other one wants to criminalize homelessness. One of them wants a future in which I might be able to vote to change how much of a war machine my country is, while the other one wants to eliminate my ability to vote entirely. Those are not the same. Those literally are opposites.

At the end of the day, all you and I can do is choose to do the least amount of harm possible. You and I cannot choose to do no harm. This is the USA, we sell war, you and I cannot choose to do no harm. I wish we could, my god do I wish we could, but that is not an option. So we grieve for the harm we couldn't eliminate and work to minimize the harm that is done. Despite all the crap they support, Democrats are the minimum amount of harm right now. Acting like they aren't is exactly what brought us to an election where our options are a future where we are either wading in blood or drowning in it.

Not voting for Biden will not help Palestine. Not voting for Biden will guarantee a Republican president who will make the situation in Palestine WORSE. AND it'll hurt a lot of other places as well, both at home and abroad, because Republicans are about business and the USA is in the business of war! And I would very much like that to change someday! I would very much like to someday be able to choose to do no harm! And I know what I have to do to try for that future, so what are YOU going to do? There is no standing off to the side in this. If you aren't helping pull, you're the dead weight we're pulling. Are you going to dig your feet into the mud and blood and drown us there? Or are you going to get the fuck off your ass, grit your teeth, and help us pull free?

#askbasket #iam-the-wild #us politics #israel #palestine #if you do not vote blue you do not get to call yourself an antifascist #i HATE that that's the case; don't mistake me #but that is the reality we're working with #there isn't any other #do nothing and kill five people or act and kill one. #so what are you gonna do? i can't choose for you. but i know what my choice is. #i'm part of this world. and as much as i hate it...turning away is not one of the options. #we fight on ALL fronts #we protest we donate we write we call #AND WE ALSO FUCKING VOTE FOR THE LEAST OF THE EVILS. BECAUSE NO EVIL IS NOT AN OPTION.

[stil-lindigo]

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#all of these cops are on their way to brutalize university students protesting genocide btw. #ACAB #all of this just to keep investing in israel. #I’ll never fucking understand it #but yknow. vote blue no matter who right. #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #free west bank #us politics #columbia university

[mephistopholes-brain]

2,977 civilians died tragically in 9/11, 343 being firefighters.

Since then it has been “Never forget.” for over 20 years, the US attacked and destabilized an innocent country, and white ppl have further pushed the narrative that Muslims and Middle Easterners are all “evil terrorists”.

Now, in less than 6 months the OFFICIAL death toll in Gaza exceeds 30,000, half being CHILDREN. At least 200 doctors have died and many were TARGETED by IOF soldiers. I have seen children dismembered, maimed, sniped, run over, crushed, starved, scalped, exploded, burned, and strung up on the side of a building.

I have seen men, women, and children desperately digging through the rubble to find their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, friends, lovers etc.

I have seen brave doctors run outside to save injured civilians while at extremely high risk of being shot by snipers.

I have seen a father carrying BAGS full of his children’s remains.

I have seen a young girl, no more than 9, with a leg, an arm, and a hand blown off while her scalp hangs from her skull.

I have seen doctors speak out against the cruelty and ethnic cleansing while surrounded by the bodies of those they tried to save.

I have seen hundreds of pictures of NICU babies who were going to die soon because the hospital was about to run out of electricity.

I have read the first hand story of a father who traded one of his children for one of his brother’s children so that if one group dies at least one of their children would make it.

I have read posts from lgbt+ KIDS talking about how they regret not kissing their crush because they just watched them DIE.

I have seen the public posts of IDF and IOF soldiers where they show off the underwear and lingerie they looted from the drawers of the Gazans they are massacring.

I have listened to the screams of mothers after hearing their child is dead.

I have watched a teen boy’s gaze harden into something cold and empty after his entire family died in front of him, leaving him completely alone.

I have seen an IOF soldier throw a father and his baby into a giant wood burning oven just for fun.

I have seen many children with shell-shock, shaking because their minds and bodies can’t comprehend the horrors they have experienced.

I have seen tanks run over women actively giving birth on the roads of Gaza.

I have watched oldest siblings, no more than 11, take on the responsibility of keeping their younger siblings safe. I cannot comprehend how incredibly stressful that must be.

A little 6yo girl was trapped for 2 weeks in a car surrounded by the dead bodies of her family as they rotted.

This is all done with American tax dollars while companies like McDonalds give free food to Israeli soldiers. We are quite literally paying for this. 20% of your work and hard earned money is paying for the genocide of innocent people in Palestine.

This is NOT a political issue. This is a human rights issue.

Pro-Palestine is Pro-Humanity.

#free palestine 🇵🇸 #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free gaza #gaza #gaza strip #gaza genocide #free palestine #protest #israhell #fuck israel #fuck the police #fuck biden #fuck billionaires #fuck america #vote third party #taxes #human rights #palestinian genocide #genocide #ethnic cleansing #9/11 #middle east #islamophobia #anti zionisim #zionsim is terrorism

[traumacatholic]

I've been seeing this more and more recently, so I'm curious what you all think about this.

Feel free to include in the tags why you voted a particular way.

#Christianity #Catholicism #Orthodox Christianity #Protestantism #Religion #I know 'other Christian denomination' would likely come under Protestant for a lot of people. But there's some people that don't identify #as Protestant despite not being Orthodox or Catholic #so it saves those arguments lol #If you're a Catechumen then vote for the denomination that you're converting to #If you're just considering Christianity but aren't sure on a denomination etc then vote 'Other'

[preemptive-procrastination]

We beg them not to kill children in droves and the media and government, on both sides, demonize and brutalize us. Never forget, never forgive…

#revolution #palestine #donald trump #joe biden #vote green #protest #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #never forget never forgive

[decolonize-the-left]

Artists creating specifically to sell and trading off (some of) their own style to do it, activists begging for attention and shares and media coverage because they aren't being paid enough attention, UNWRA desperate for donations, the percentage of people who don't mask in 2024 compared to deaths and disabilities, ppl who need to be convinced to vote with principles that save lives and that genocide is unacceptable, how a living wage or UBI is believed to be "unrealistic" despite the trillions in shareholder investment accounts.

....I'm starting to think Mainstream People™ fucking suck, ngl. In fact, dare I say that Mainstream People are the biggest obstacle to progress now.

Malcolm X said it was the white liberal as did a lot of other revolutionaries and thinkers.

I, however, think anyone who can hold their own comfort over someone else's suffering is the problem.

Why are the rest of us constantly begging and shouting and changing ourselves and our bodies in an effort to make them care about us? To make them see us? To give us rights? To bless us with the support needed to make a living?

Same shit, different generations. And idk about y'all, but I would love to be the last generations who ever had to hate themselves to survive.

#For starters: why are we asking and voting and protesting for rights. HELLO?? #THEYRE RIGHTS. THEYRE ALREADY OURS. #Secondly: it's been 500 years since pilgrims arrived #they do not call the shots anymore. And one of my rights is to form my own militia #to protect me from a fucked up government... are we waiting for an invitation to start calling shots? or whats the plan with that #cuz im good #id like to start talikg whats mine now ty #....anyway i have no fucking clue what to do #i do know that there two ways to get passed an obstacle tho. around it or through it #idk if you can just Workaround the majority and idk how to go through them either #reblog #politics #mainstream #dems #repubs #liberals #people #sociology #idk #equality #classism #capitalism #biden #lgbt #direct action #leftist #ndn #queer #2024 #social justice

[siliconcat]

touhou vote 2023

#touhou #東方 #toho vote #touhou vote #alice margatroid #patchouli knowledge #reimu hakurei #marisa kirisame #utsuho reiuji #mamizou futatsuiwa #sumireko usami #sorry for having an eosd character and both protests in the top 10 😔 I’m basic I know #protags*

[official-boobies-posts]

always was, always will be aboriginal land ❤️💛🖤

#dont know how many aussies follow me but its jmportant #for those who arent australia!! #today is invasion day otherwise known as australia #its a celebration of the mass genocide of the aboriginal and torres strait islander people #(the owners of aussie land) #weve also very recently lost a vote to give aboriginal people a say in what happens to that land #thankfully the protests all over the country were huge #ive just gotten home from one that had tens of thousands of people marching through meanjin #if youd like some links to support indigenous owned businesses (v important to do especially today) #feel free to dm me #australia #invasion day #australia day #jan 26th #change the date #vote yes #land back

[virovac]

Democratic Primary for States/Territories without write-ins

March 23rd: Louisiana (Both Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson on ballot)

May 7th: Indiana (No D or M or anyone else.)

June 4th: South Dakota (Both Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson on ballot)

June 8th: Guam (Candidate list currently unavailable)

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Look into Dean Philips and Marianne Williamso.

#Guam 2024 primary #South Dakota 2024 Primary #Louisian 2024 primary #protest votes #protest vote #voting

[bonesashesglass]

Please look into Claudia De la Cruz! She's a 2024 USA presidential candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and she is actively trying to help Palestine and to improve conditions for working class people. If you like her, please help spread her name!

Hi! I was actually planning on voting for De la Cruz in the election! But you’re right more people need to spread the word about her. I think the reason a lot of people still want to vote for Biden is because they don’t want to vote for Trump, and don’t realize there’s another option.

Yes it’s an uphill battle, but nothing is going to change by playing into the same lesser-of-two-evils two-party system that has always screwed us over.

Claudia De la Cruz for 2024 and Free Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#free gaza #gaza #palestine #save gaza #save palestine #ceasefire #free palestine #gaza strip #israel #West Bank #us politics #us government #claudia de la cruz #2024 presidential election #2024 elections #presidential election #joe biden #protest #activism #voting #usa #call for ceasefire #stop genocide #anti israeli terrorism #anti USA terrorism #anti israel occupation #social justice #social activism #solidarity #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[agelessphotography]

Crowds of people in front of the Montgomery County Courthouse to demonstrate against police treatment of voter rights demonstrators, Montgomery, Alabama, Declan Haun, March 17, 1965

#declan haun #photography #vintage photography #vintage #montgomery #alabama #civil rights #civil rights movement #1960s #1965 #protest #voting rights #police brutality

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Concept: A comedy play set in the late Roman republic with the audience playing the role of the Roman people. The characters prompt the audience to 'vote' in elections (shouting "yay" or "boo"), to harass other characters making speeches, to join Caesar or Pompey as their "legionaries" in the civil war, and to revolt while the armies are fighting overseas.

Then Caesar comes back from the war, victorious. And he doesn't prompt the audience anymore, he tells them what is going to happen next. Including having the set redesigned, changing the genre of the story, and critiquing the theater the play is happening in. When theater managers (planted actors) step in and remind him he can't do that, Caesar has them dragged out of the building. The voice of the people has been silenced, and the rule of law is suspended, just like it was in real life.

The audience is never again prompted for input. Both the conspirators who kill Caesar and the mob that runs them out of Rome are entirely actors, acting on their own initiative. We hop briefly over the war of Mutina, then to the formation of the second triumvirate, and the final scene of the play is Antony, Octavian and Lepidus having audience members killed (more planted actors). Even the curtain call is framed as if the audience is reduced to giving a rubber-stamp approval to a three-headed dictatorship.

Sweet dreams, everyone!

#(and be very suspicious of anybody trying to restrict people's right to vote or protest in real life...) #theater #writing ideas #jlrrt speaks #caesar's civil war #i love thinking of the end of the republic as a tragedy. in like a literary way. it's awful and ugly and i want to dissect it like a frog #jlrrt essays