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This Presidential election is one of the most polarized and intense I've ever seen in my lifetime. I don't recall a time when so many people were out early to vote like this, either.
This was the scene outside the library at City Island in Daytona Beach yesterday. It was the end of the day, not long before the polls closed, but the place was still hopping, and both voters and campaigners were still at it.
When I got out of my car, I was literally mobbed by the folks on the Democratic side, who were quick to hand out voting guides. One lady, upon finding out that I'd voted earlier, and was just here to bring my brother to vote, tried to hand me literature to give out elsewhere. I told her I'd voted Republican, and her face fell. What was encouraging was the response after that. She smiled and said, "You know what? I'm glad you voted. I still like you!" and chuckled a little. I replied, "After all, we're still Americans." She then said, "and we have to get along when this is all over." This was probably the most truthful thing I've heard lately.
We need to remember that we ARE Americans. The other party isn't the enemy. It's other Americans exercising their right to vote. We disagree fiercely on issues, but when all is said and done, every four years, we have to look each other in the eye and do this again!
Vote the platform that most closely represents your views. If you lose, try to be a graceful loser, not a whiner. If you win, do so with maturity, not gloating. There will be four more years to prepare the next change, but hopefully, whichever person takes office, we will have a leader who takes us through those years with strength, courage, and wisdom. Pray for them. It is the toughest job on earth, and they don't need half the people in this country against them!
I can't help but almost get a tear in my eye whenever I see scenes like this. People are passionate about their candidates, and they should be. We elect them, and that is such a wonderful right! Not every country has that right. We should be grateful, and maybe a little proud. The world watches, and has its opinions based on what it hears, or how our country's policies affect the rest of the world, but we have ours based on what we have to live with, from taxes to healthcare, to issues too numerous to count. We, the American people, decide, not Europeans, not Russians, not Africans, not Mexicans. Americans. Choose wisely, Folks. Four years can be a very long time.
Last evening, in George Square, Channel 4 News's economics editor Paul Mason gives his analysis of the situation here in Glasgow.
The atmosphere in Scotland has been electrifying in recent months: politics is being talked about at every bar, every dinner party, damn near every street corner and, for the first time in my life, there is something like an informed electorate on this island. The people have tasted something of the power they deserve, and we know what it's like to have hope again. I believe that when I cast my vote tomorrow it will be one of the most important things I've ever done, and I'll be voting YES, but I'm going to be in tears whichever way it goes.
My main reasons for voting yes are explained with more intelligence and flair than I have in this article: www.monbiot.com/2014/09/02/someone-elses-story/
For the economic facts to support my decision, see this article: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2014/09/16/a-risk-assessment-for-fu...
However you vote tomorrow, please do your research, and arrive at your decision through thought and analysis.
Change is coming. Hope over fear.
Glasgow, 2014.
I just voted in the most consequential election in my lifetime if not in the history of our country. Here’s hoping the nightmare will soon be over and all we deem good and precious can begin to be restored.
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Not entirely being flippant here (not at all, actually). This weekend in my state of New South Wales (Australia) we have elections for local government.
So, if you live here, and you haven't voted, remember to Vote Green.
They are the only party that consistently pushes policies that are trying to save the world from the toxic patriarchal neoliberal capitalist system that is hell bent on destroying the planet, and sentencing our children to a bleak future.
And another thing: For our community, the Greens are the only party that has consistently been pro-LGBTIA for decades, with even their cis-het members happy to show ally-ship in their use of personal pronouns.
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In this day and age, exercising your right to vote is more important than ever. Here in the US, more people turned out to vote for a midterm election than ever before. Flattery wanted to vote for better canine healthcare, mandatory treats at least five times a day and more tail wagging. Alas, those things weren't on the ballot, but I didn't tell her Instead, I cast my vote that I hope will make life better for all of us, including dogs.
You can read more about Flattery at TalesAndTails.com.
It’s the spring general election, and I voted in person for the first time since the February 2020 spring primary.
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I requested an absentee ballot in Georgia. It took 23 days for it to be sent to me. I filled it out and took it to a drop-box the next day. It took another 4 days for the state website to show that it had been received and accepted. But...
I VOTED...exercising the most basic and sacred and powerful right belonging to ALL American adults. The election is on 3 November 2020. Vote as if your life depended on it. It does.
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▶ U.S. government website: www.vote.org
▶ Non-profit, nonpartisan organization: turbovote.org (Democracy Works)
▶ State of Georgia government website: My Voter Page
▶ Also in Georgia: fairfight.com
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So this is it! The final two! Who gets your vote? #TeamBrittany or #TeamDidii?
Vote in the comments!
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Didii: www.flickr.com/photos/ddddolls/
VOTES:
Brittany: 17
Didii: 15
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This bronze statue in Kanturk Park is of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington who was born in Kanturk in 1877. She married Francis Skeffington in 1903 & they both took the surname Sheehy Skeffington (which they did not hyphenate but used as a double name). She was a suffragette & Irish nationalist. She co-founded the Irish Women's Franchise League in 1908 with the aim of obtaining women's voting rights. She was later a founding member of the Irish Women Workers' Union.
She lost her teaching job in 1913 when she was arrested & imprisoned for three months after throwing stones at Dublin Castle in a feminist action. While in jail she went on hunger strike.
She strongly opposed participation in the First World War which broke out in August 1914 & was prevented by the British government from attending the International Congress of Women held in The Hague in April 1915. The following June her husband was imprisoned for anti-recruiting activities. He was later shot dead during the 1916 Easter Rising on the orders of a British army officer, Captain JC Bowen-Colthurst, a unionist from Cork.
Sheehy Skeffington refused compensation for her husband's death (offered on condition of her ceasing to speak & write about the murder). She travelled to the United States to publicise the political situation in Ireland. Her son, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington became a politician and Irish Senator.
She died, aged 68, in Dublin & is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.
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Like my mother said when I was a kid in the 70s, if you don’t vote you have no right to complain. Right now, we all have one job: Right the ship so we can get back to fighting for climate and environment. No matter the rest of your politics, earth needs your vote. Today is your day.