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Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

Peanut President posted:

Just found out my ballot wasn't counted :thumbsup:

Just gonna start writing in "eat poo poo and die, jerkoff" every time from now on

How did you find that out? Does the SoS site say 'spoiled' for your status or something?

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Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Tubgoat posted:

How did you find that out? Does the SoS site say 'spoiled' for your status or something?

My county has 0 votes for the greens. This is the third time in 3 prez elections it's happened.

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

Peanut President posted:

My county has 0 votes for the greens. This is the third time in 3 prez elections it's happened.

does your state actually tally write ins? most dont unless the write ins outnumber a listed candidate (ie never)

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Is there a tracker to see how the greens did nationally? I haven't been able to find anything except red vs blue

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

You can just type election results into google and then expand the table it gives you

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://twitter.com/dneiljones813/status/1324080585372016641

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

poo poo

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!



ah gently caress this makes me worry for a path to making it a red green party

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

this shouldn't surprise anyone, he has name recognition.

Ruzihm posted:

ah gently caress this makes me worry for a path to making it a red green party

if you can't be handsome....

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1324109970481143808

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.
That's pathetic.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
my country's green party got like 8% of the vote and elected 2 actual communists :)

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
Lmao, I was loving right, Ventura's star power is the only way Green's getting anywhere. He's not a chud so he has my vote.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free
Howie got 0.4% of Washington with 85% reporting as of now, and I'm proud to be a part of it

Rastor
Jun 2, 2001

Tubgoat posted:

Lmao, I was loving right, Ventura's star power is the only way Green's getting anywhere. He's not a chud so he has my vote.
0.8% is still small

Is star power enough to get people to bother coming to the polls for a third party?

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

the chad body vs the virgin howie

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

new conspiracy theory: the greens stopped ventura because they didnt want to hurt biden

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Rastor posted:

0.8% is still small

Is star power enough to get people to bother coming to the polls for a third party?

I think you’d need several, with the main star also being smart, charismatic, and capable, full in on the lime kool-aid. or just megawealthy, I guess, like Perot. I think it’s very possible and could lead to 5% easy, though these days probably at the cost of a democratic win...which means getting enough/the right celebs may be difficult.

durrneez
Feb 20, 2013

I like fish. I like to eat fish. I like to brush fish with a fish hairbrush. Do you like fish too?

comedyblissoption posted:

new conspiracy theory: the greens stopped ventura because they didnt want to hurt biden

i'm drinking this kool-aid

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

comedyblissoption posted:

new conspiracy theory: the greens stopped ventura because they didnt want to hurt biden

durrneez posted:

i'm drinking this kool-aid
"They" is, once again, Capital or its chosen agents. Ventura running would've cost his wife the healthcare on which she depends for survival. The system works flawlessly and effortlessly.

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007
Green party is getting dropped in future ballots here. Looks like I'm now stuck to just DSA primary poo poo? DSA is nonexistent in my area though so may as well not vote. gently caress this country.

https://wnyt.com/politics/green-libertarian-independence-parties-kicked-off-ny-ballots/5915928/

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
Just throw the ballot through the ballot box as hard as you can.

Crancherry
May 29, 2014

Pork Pro
I hope Ventura runs in 2024. I think his name recognition would at the very least get Greens the 5%, or whatever it is, threshold.

Best case scenario, he runs and sweeps the GE because people finally get a loving clue that neither party gives a poo poo about anyone or anything other than what the rich rear end in a top hat donor class wants.

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

Radirot posted:

Green party is getting dropped in future ballots here. Looks like I'm now stuck to just DSA primary poo poo? DSA is nonexistent in my area though so may as well not vote. gently caress this country.

https://wnyt.com/politics/green-libertarian-independence-parties-kicked-off-ny-ballots/5915928/

Man gently caress this poo poo

lets restrict peoples' choices instead of running better, more appealing candidates, surely this will not backfire

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Breakfast All Day posted:

does your state actually tally write ins? most dont unless the write ins outnumber a listed candidate (ie never)

pretty sure they do. I remember Soltysik getting like 100 votes (with my county showing 0 despite my vote for him). I'd take a screenshot but the state's Electoral Results site has been down for 2 days

0 rows returned
Apr 9, 2007

Code Jockey posted:

Man gently caress this poo poo

lets restrict peoples' choices instead of running better, more appealing candidates, surely this will not backfire

V 👏 O 👏 T 👏 E 👏

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

0 rows returned posted:

V 👏 O 👏 T 👏 E 👏

*votes third party*
Democrats: "No, not like that."

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
I think Ventura can go republican and backdoor the country blood red. :getin:
Literally all he needs to do is hammer on:
-the democrat party being headed by literally the worst people currently alive on this planet
-what a macho manly man he was in Predator and other such films
-Obama's need to be tried for crimes at home and abroad
-healthcare for EVERYONE, yes, even your enemies; once y'all are whole again, THEN you can duke it out if you really feel you need to
-rebrand vaccinations as cheat codes for health

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

the_steve posted:

*votes third party*
Democrats: "No, not like that."

I wonder how many people the dems have permanently lost this year with their bullshit

*raises paw*

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Code Jockey posted:

I wonder how many people the dems have permanently lost this year with their bullshit

*raises paw*

The last 5 or so years have pretty much turned me off to voting completely. I wouldn't have bothered this year if I weren't petty and spiteful enough to go out and vote green.

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo
I'll still keep voting because there is no opportunity cost to me, and it allows me to tell assholes crying "If you didn't vote, you don't get to complain" to suck their father's shriveled sac.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

I mean you can tell them that anyway

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

69420 basic bytes free

Marx Was A Lib posted:

The last 5 or so years have pretty much turned me off to voting completely. I wouldn't have bothered this year if I weren't petty and spiteful enough to go out and vote green.

I mean, I wasn't exactly a dem cheerleader before (got sucked into Obama's bullshit in 2008, but wrote in Bernie in 2012 and 2016) but now I don't really care who you are, the D is a non-starter

but yeah, aside from local poo poo I can't imagine caring very much about voting in the future

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.
Jesse Ventura is like an alien. He's that hypothetical "third option" voter that everyone imagines.

I legit can't tell if he's a libertarian or a progressive.

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.
double post, sorry

punk rebel ecks has issued a correction as of 01:57 on Nov 6, 2020

Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

Tubgoat posted:

I think Ventura can go republican and backdoor the country blood red. :getin:
Literally all he needs to do is hammer on:
-the democrat party being headed by literally the worst people currently alive on this planet
-what a macho manly man he was in Predator and other such films
-Obama's need to be tried for crimes at home and abroad
-healthcare for EVERYONE, yes, even your enemies; once y'all are whole again, THEN you can duke it out if you really feel you need to
-rebrand vaccinations as cheat codes for health

problem with the last one: Ventura is aggressively anti-vax. Like, more than the Green Party has been.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

The Bush administration needs to be tried as well, you should probably mention them

Fuzzy McDoom
Oct 9, 2007

-MORE MONEY FOR US

-FUCK...YOU KNOW, THE THING

https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/1324772733339815937?s=20

Votes still being slowly counted in Baltimore but it looks like the District 12 race is shaking out to be something like this:

60% Dem
35% Green
4% Rep

Not an unexpected outcome but still a fantastic achievement. Every other Dem won their city council race at about 90%, and this is the highest percent of the vote a non-Democrat has won in the city in literally decades, so while it doesn't give us a seat it really does shape up the organizing landscape in the City. Massive cracks in the loyalty of the union movement to the Democratic machine, which were in turn built upon several years of radicals successfully wooing progressives to ally against entrenched power structures in the unions and other civil organizations.

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

Youth Decay posted:

problem with the last one: Ventura is aggressively anti-vax. Like, more than the Green Party has been.
Good, he can use that to court republicans, and then when he gets into office, he can talk to a scientist.

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MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

punk rebel ecks posted:

Jesse Ventura is like an alien. He's that hypothetical "third option" voter that everyone imagines.

I legit can't tell if he's a libertarian or a progressive.

He's both at once.

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