#the ballot

[candlewinds]

goo se ra: *walks*

#into the ring #kdramaedit #kdramaladies #kdramadaily #the ballot #kdrama #nana #goo se ra #she's got places to be! lives to change!! winks to wink!!! secretaries to smooch!!!! #*edits

[khaoray]

I'm nice to people who buy me food.

@asiandramanet march bingo: shapes kdramawomensweek 2024: day two - female president

#into the ring #the ballot #kdrama #kdramaedit #kdramasource #kdramadaily #kdramawomensweek #kww2024 #kdramaladies #asiandramasource #asiandramanet #userdramas #*gifs #*bingos #*weeks

[therukurals]

userdramas event01 favorites: favorite k-drama couple  ↳Goo Se-ra and Seo Gong-myung in The Ballot (2020)

[ID: 5 gifs from Korean drama, the Ballot. Gif 1: A black and white gif with a blue drop shadow of a young Goo Se-ra’s hand reaching out to grab something in from of a young Seo Gong-myung holding an umbrella. It’s raining. The text reads “On that rainy night a long time ago, what were you going to give me when you took some of my fear.” Gif 2: Se-ra snuggles in closer to Gong-myung in bed as he lays his arm around her.  Gif 3: Se-ra is running in the race and Gong-myun is running along side her, they are looking at each other. Gif 4: The couple are wearing masks and are trying to sneak around with a wheelbarrow. Gif 5: A black and white gif, a close up of their hands. Gong-myung hands her a note, there is text in the middle that reads “Courage.” /END ID]

#into the ring #the ballot #memorials #kdramanetwork #userdramas #asiancentral #kdramaedit #asiandramanet #asiancinemasource #dailyasiandramas #kdrama #nana #park sunghoon #gil's content #gc: gifs #gc: the ballot #gc: kdrama

[the-cimmerians]

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties--the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

#US Politics #rare ass personal post #in support of an informed and engaged electorate #propaganda #please vote if you can #and please vote the whole ballot

[maeamian]

Hey Americans, double check that you don't have an election tomorrow, Nov 7th 2023, I know the off years are harder to keep track of, but it'd be a shame if Moms for Liberty gets their people on your school district's school boards because of it. If you don't have an election, great!, but just give it a double check for me if you're not sure ok?

#If you need help finding a sample ballot for it and talking through the options I might be able to help #Although that offer only applies to mutuals and people who have been following me for a while #I'm not going to give advice to people I don't know to be familiar with me

[madtomedgar]

5 states including kentucky (!!) voted to protect abortion access. 3 states did away with slavery (prison labor) as punishment for a crime. 3 states made massive commitments to affordable housing. illinois made collective bargaining a protected right. 2 more states legalized weed. connecticut is moving towards early voting. alabama removed racist language from the state constitution and is investing in statewide public broadband internet. california massively expanded funding for arts and music programs in public schools. colorado raised on the wealthiest in order to provide universal free school lunch to students. georgia may no longer pay cops who are suspended on a felony indictment. massachusetts massively expanded funding for public education and infrastructure, massively expanded dental insurance, and will allow residents to get a drivers license or state id regardless of immigration status. montana will now require a search warrant for access to electronic data. nebraska will increase its minimum wage to $15. new mexico will massively improve and expand senior facilities, public libraries, higher ed, special public schools, and tribal schools, residential utilities (water, internet, electricity). new york is putting 4.2 billion towards climate change mitigation. rhode island is increasing funding for public education and environmental protection. south dakota expanded medicaid.

#there are good ballot measures still up in the air too #every news outlet is focusing on the party politics of it all #and that is important too #but tennessee voted to do away with slavery as punishment #and kentucky voted to defend abortion #and there are all these little things that are actually huge wins #across so many states #and SO much work goes into ballot measures #anyway

[sundaynightfilms]

Six in Paris, 1965

#six in paris #jean rouch #nadine ballot #barbet schroeder

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it is. so weird to me that I'm having to say this again after a real-life cartoon supervillian already once ran for president on a platform of hatred & fascism and won, but.

it's November, please fucking vote

#not a shitpost #serious post #this election cycle will DETERMINE what legislation gets passed #it will DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF ABORTION RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBTQ+ PROTECTIONS #the supreme court plans to destroy as much progress as possible and that means we have to rely on congress to protect those rights #which they can only do if the Dems control the senate and the house #we are in FULL BLOWN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE here #especially because it is still somehow perfectly possible and actually probable #that the festering pile of garbage in human form who recently tried to overthrow the government will end up back on the ballot in 2024 #we still haven't recovered from 4 years of trump and if we don't show up at the polls it is perfectly possible we will get another 4 years #vote this november to protect basic human rights #and vote in november 2024 so we don't have to survive another 4 years under trump #because many of us--the most vulnerable of us--won't survive. and many many more will suffer #vote to protect yourself and your neighbors. vote to protect those who most need protection. #vote because it is the right thing to do #vote out of kindness #and vote out of spite--because billionaires are spending insane amounts of money to prevent you from voting #so tell them to get fucked and vote anyway #do it out of spite and do it out of heart and do it out of rage and do it out of love #show up #us politics

[notbecauseofvictories]

guess who signed up to be an election judge??

#it's me! going to be a cog in the democratic process. #which...based on everything I've read is being a glorified hall monitor and scanning ballots #but either way! 2024 Year Of Doing Shit. #2024 Year Of Developing A Life Outside of Work #about me

[reasonsforhope]

For all the concern in recent years that U.S. democracy is on the brink, in danger or under threat, a report out Tuesday offers a glimmer of good news for American voters worried that casting a ballot will be difficult in 2024.

Put simply, the new data shows that voting in America has gotten easier over the past two decades. More voters have the ability to cast a ballot before Election Day, with the majority of U.S. states now offering some form of early in-person voting and mail voting to all voters.

"Although we often talk in a partisan context about voter fraud and voter suppression and whether voters have access to the ballot, the reality is, over the past 25 years, we've greatly increased the convenience of voting for almost all Americans," said David Becker, the founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), which authored the new report...

The data shows that, despite real efforts by some Republican-led legislatures to restrict access at the margins, the trend in the U.S. since 2000 has been toward making it easier to vote: Nearly 97% of voting-age American citizens now live in states that offer the option to vote before Election Day.

"The lies about early voting, the lies about voting machines and efforts in some state legislatures to roll back some of the election integrity and convenience measures that have evolved over the last several decades, those efforts almost all failed," Becker said. "In almost every single state, voters can choose to vote when they want to."

Forty-six states and Washington, D.C., offer some form of early in-person voting, the report tallied, and 37 of those jurisdictions also offer mail voting to all voters without requiring an excuse...

In 2000

In 2024

Infographic via NPR. If you go to the article, you can watch an animation of this map that shows voting availability in every election since 2000.

There are some political trends that show up in the data. Of the 14 states that don't offer mail voting to all voters, for instance, 12 have Republican-led legislatures.

-via NPR, March 19, 2024. Article continues below.

But maybe the more striking trends are geographic. Every single state in the western U.S. has offered some form of early and mail voting to all voters since 2004, according to the data. And those states span the political spectrum, from conservative Idaho to liberal California.

"It's really hard to talk about partisanship around this issue because historically there just hasn't been much," Mann said. "We've seen voting by mail and early in-person voting supported by Republican legislatures, Democratic legislatures, Republican governors, Democratic governors. We see voters in both parties use both methods." ...

In 2020, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts all made changes to make voting more easily accessible, which have since partially or fully become permanent. Delaware is currently embroiled in a legal fight over whether it can implement early and mail voting changes this election cycle as well.

The South, with its history of slavery and Jim Crow laws, has long lagged behind when it comes to voting access. The CEIR data shows that, although some states have slowly started expanding options for voters, generally it is still the most difficult region for voters to cast a ballot.

As options nationwide have become more widely available, voters have also responded by taking advantage.

In the 2000 election, 86% of voters voted at a polling place on Election Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

In 2020, during the pandemic, that number dropped to less than 31% of voters. It went back up in 2022, to roughly half of the electorate, but was still in line with the two-decade trend toward more ballots being cast early.

...in reality, Becker says, more voting options actually make elections more secure and less susceptible to malicious activity or even human error.

"If there were a problem, if there were a cyber event, if there were a malfunction, if there were bad weather, if there were traffic, if there were was a power outage, you could think of all kinds of circumstances. ... The more you spread voting out over a series of days and over multiple modes, the less likely it's going to impact voters," he said...

-via NPR, March 19, 2024

#united states #voting #voting matters #early voting #mail in ballots #voting access #american politics #us elections #election 2024 #us politics #democrats #republicans #election day #election news #good news #hope

[presaugust]

Dr. Ratthi: #1 Man

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #PresAugust 2023 #ballot box

[candlewinds]

- On that rainy night a long time ago, what were you going to give me when you took some of my fear? - Courage.

INTO THE RING (2020)

#into the ring #kdramaedit #kdramadaily #the ballot #nana #park sung hoon #goo se ra #seo gong myung #[girl who just finished show voice] I miss them... #honestly one of my fave tv couples #and I am allergic to many if not most canon romances (even queer ones) they very often end up boring me #but these two? a joy every second. I love them together. I love them separately. I love them #may they get up to shenanigans put their heads together (literally) and be in cahoots 4ever #💛 #*edits #kdrama

[don-lichterman]

Matt Kenseth tops NASCAR Hall of Fame 2023 class

Matt Kenseth tops NASCAR Hall of Fame 2023 class

Driver Matt Kenseth was selected on his first time on the ballot and highlights the NASCAR Hall of Fame 2023 class. Also selected for induction were crew chief Kirk Shelmerdine and driver Hershel McGriff. The induction ceremony is Jan. 20 at Charlotte, N.C. The 50-year-old Kenseth won the Daytona 500 twice (2009, 2012) and totaled 39 Cup victories in 18 full-time seasons on the track. He retired…

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#championships #chief #crew chief #driver #level #Motor Sports News #percent #pretty #shelmerdine #the ballot

[zivazivc]

Man she really dumped him for being sad? I see where creek got his personality-

queen also didn't sign up for raising baby brothers-in-law instead of their own kids that they've been planning on having

#trolls #dreamworks trolls #is JD Creek's father? #the ballots are still coming in and it keeps being 50/50 #not that i won't go with my own preference in the end #but I prefer not to say anything and let the chaos go on XD #trolls creek #baby creek #trolls oc #freesia #drawing baby creek makes me feel weird #like drawing baby hitler #but he is one of my favorite character designs and he is cute #my art #answered #on a more serious note #it's unforgivable what freesia did and the way she did it #but the reasons for the breakup were more complicated and messy than i made it seem in that post #they had plans for the future that got postponed then derailed because of the deaths of the parents #and then JD started spending less and less time with her since he had to provide for the family #and the time they did spend together he used just to vent about his problems (understandable) #but at one point she had enough #so yeah... #also i headcanon JD always wanted to be a dad before this #and was excited to start a family #but then he got traumatized

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

👏

#republican assholes #scotus #traitor trump #crooked donald #Trump removed from ballot #Jan 6th insurrection #insurrectionist trump

[super-smash-bracket]

QUARTERFINALS

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#Smash Ballot #Professor Layton #eShop Bag