Bellmaker posted:

Voted in [swing state] today, turnout was as busy as I've ever seen it. I live in a fairly Dem part of [swing state] so hopefully that's good?

ManBoyChef posted:

The problem with Charlie Crist is that its not like he had a change of heart and is less ghoulish than when he was a republican. He still pretty much believes all the same moderate republican stuff. Unfortunately, in comparison to Ron Desantis he looks like Mao so you pretty much have to vote for him. This state is problematic.

Bellmaker posted:

Voted in [swing state] today, turnout was as busy as I've ever seen it. I live in a fairly Dem part of [swing state] so hopefully that's good?

Eric Cantonese posted:

I’m prepping for the worst. The GOP base seem psyched about Zeldin and I think Dems have gotten complacent about New York.

This is tinfoil hat territory but I wonder if the NY GOP has been paying people to fill up NextDoor with crime complaints. I don’t recognize the city these people are describing.

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Maj. Gamaliel Turner was more than upset. Assigned by the Pentagon to the Naval base at Port Hueneme, California, Turner had called his hometown registrar in Columbus, Georgia, to find out about his missing absentee ballot.

The soldier’s ballot wasn’t missing. They hadn’t sent the ballot because, he was told, “Mr. Turner, you have been challenged.”

Challenged? Under a new law — SB 202 — signed by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last year, self-appointed vigilante vote fraud hunters have, for the first time, the right to challenge an unlimited number of other voters: “There shall not be a limit on the number of persons whose qualifications such elector [voter] may challenge.”

Unlimited means unlimited. The man who challenged Turner successfully blocked 4,000 other voters in Columbus. So far, the 159 counties in Georgia have sent the Palast Investigative Fund a breathtaking 149,168 challenges filed against voters.

Our investigators contacted several hundred of these accused voters and they are, overwhelmingly, like Major Turner, Black or young.

Typical Pubbie posted:

I'm in Florida. Voted no on Amendments 2 and 3. Voted yes for some progressive local candidates.

MixMasterMalaria posted:

Why no on 2?

Typical Pubbie posted:

I see no good reason to end the constitution revision commission. Also, this amendment was brought forth by the Republican controlled state legislature. gently caress em, they're up to something.

small butter posted:

These are the people who drive their car two blocks from their house to the bakery and never take the train or go downtown or to Manhattan. Crime is nonexistent here, never seen anything in 15 years of living in this neighborhood except loud arguments between people and family members. Covid by far killed more of them here than any crime. I want to ask them "had enough of *what* yet?"

Phlegmish posted:

Basic question from a non-American - why are the Democrats considered to be the majority party in the Senate when they only have 48 out of a 100 seats? Do the two Independents always vote in lockstep with them, giving them a majority coalition when the Vice President's deciding vote is taken into account?

e: this does appear to be the case. That's a really tight margin, though

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Thom12255 posted:

Voted for the first time as an American today. Pretty quick. Wrote in my wife's name for the option where only a Republican was available.

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TulliusCicero posted:

Lmao Kemp is so afraid of Abrams that he loving weaponized old chuds to deny votes to people.

loving fragile piece of poo poo.

joe football posted:

Doing my part with useless anecdotes

Suburban Pittsburgh and there was no line whatsoever compared to a 30+ minute wait in 2020(think I voted in the evening in 2018)

I know it's a midterm and people voted by mail etc but did not make me feel great

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the other district that shares our polling place is stuck handing out provisional ballots cause someone signed up to serve as judge of election, picked up the poll book and other poo poo from the county, and then never showed today
several people tried to find her and it turned out the address was a vacant lot

Automata 10 Pack posted:

https://truthout.org/articles/georgias-governor-deputized-gop-vigilantes-to-challenge-149000-voters/

So nearly 150,000 voters have been blocked by the GOP in Georgia already. How are they doing this so quickly? They’re using a list provided by the “Trust the Vote”, the organization that made that Russia map using “2000 Mules” documentary.

So uh, Georgia’s going red. Lol.

Thom12255 posted:

Voted for the first time as an American today. Pretty quick. Wrote in my wife's name for the option where only a Republican was available.

Main Paineframe posted:

Basically, yeah. The two independents both caucus with the Dems, meaning that they've joined the formal Dem party organization within the Senate, the Senate Democratic Caucus. This gives them all the same involvement in the party's day-to-day business as a Democrat would have, including supporting their candidate for Senate Majority Leader and being in their lineup for committee assignments.

On the ballot, they're independent and aren't officially affiliated with their state Democratic party, When in DC, they effectively act as part of the national Dem party organization, and are independent in name only.

The current "independent" candidates have good relationships with their state Dems as well; for example, although Bernie Sanders is officially an independent, he's never actually run against a Democrat for his Senate seat. The first time he ran for Senate, the state and national parties both endorsed him and refused to lend their aid or resources to any challenger. To ensure no Dem competitor, he has an arrangement with them in which he runs in the Dem primary with the full support of the party, wins it, and then declines the Dem nomination.

Eric Cantonese posted:

I can't tell from the article. Is this affecting ballots after they have been cast or is this a horrible variation of a voter registration purge?

achillesforever6 posted:

One of my friends in Pittsburgh is working a poll and saw this happening

Dapper_Swindler posted:

allegedly philly turnout is great today as is other PA places so gently caress if i know.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Keep in mind iirc Sinema wasn't an 'independent' til she got elected and suddenly turned around and started being an obvious Manchin wannabe.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Keep in mind iirc Sinema wasn't an 'independent' til she got elected and suddenly turned around and started being an obvious Manchin wannabe.

Rigel posted:

I've done the ghoulish math on this. In the stupidest and chuddiest parts of the country (like Florida), it might make a difference of a full 0.1%. So, it might help the Dems win a race that would have otherwise been almost perfectly tied.