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BASIC VOTER RESOURCES: For information on 1) who your legislators are and 2) how they have voted on all key issues, click here. We need legislators who will engage in independent thought. Their past records can tell a lot about them.
Websites abound for state-by-state information on how, where, and when to vote; deadlines; checking on your registration, and tracking your ballot. Click on one of the following or choose your own after a google search:
NBC News: Plan Your Vote
Rock the Vote
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
BASIC VOTER RESOURCES: For information on 1) who your legislators are and 2) how they have voted on all key issues, click here. We need legislators who will engage in independent thought. Their past records can tell a lot about them.
Websites abound for state-by-state information on how, where, and when to vote; deadlines; checking on your registration, and tracking your ballot. Click on one of the following or choose your own after a google search:
NBC News: Plan Your Vote
Rock the Vote
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
The stakes in the upcoming election couldn’t be higher. Historians tell us the survival of democracy’s at risk. Trump has shown us who he is—and as Maya Angelou famously said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
Brash, unfeeling, and ignorant of history, Trump has obliterated the long-established line between government and politics, turned the Republican Party into a collection of cowards, and used his family in a fashion that reveals his autocratic aspirations. The GOP convention—especially the final night—was largely a family affair; and the White House, duded up like a party venue with “Trump/Pence” signs framing the stage, was a travesty, enough to make the founders weep.
As most of us know, the threats to this election are many: slow postal service due to the Trump/DeJoy cutbacks; fewer mailboxes; potential interference, both foreign and domestic; closure of polling places; deliberate misinformation.
Don’t forget: In the last election Clinton won 48.2% of the popular vote to Trump’s 46.1%. Statisticians say that because of the vagaries of the electoral college, the votes of 107,000 people in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania effectively gave the election to Trump. Still think your vote doesn’t matter?
For state by state information on such matters as how, where, and when to vote; deadlines; checking on your registration, and tracking your ballot, websites abound. Click on one of the sites in the box above or choose your own in a google search.
Brash, unfeeling, and ignorant of history, Trump has obliterated the long-established line between government and politics, turned the Republican Party into a collection of cowards, and used his family in a fashion that reveals his autocratic aspirations. The GOP convention—especially the final night—was largely a family affair; and the White House, duded up like a party venue with “Trump/Pence” signs framing the stage, was a travesty, enough to make the founders weep.
As most of us know, the threats to this election are many: slow postal service due to the Trump/DeJoy cutbacks; fewer mailboxes; potential interference, both foreign and domestic; closure of polling places; deliberate misinformation.
Don’t forget: In the last election Clinton won 48.2% of the popular vote to Trump’s 46.1%. Statisticians say that because of the vagaries of the electoral college, the votes of 107,000 people in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania effectively gave the election to Trump. Still think your vote doesn’t matter?
For state by state information on such matters as how, where, and when to vote; deadlines; checking on your registration, and tracking your ballot, websites abound. Click on one of the sites in the box above or choose your own in a google search.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not to run their lives.
--Ronald Reagan
--Ronald Reagan