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Yavin4

(35,453 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 07:08 AM Sep 2020

Turnout, Turnout, Turnout, M***f**king Turnout!!!!

The polls WERE NOT wrong in 2016. Hillary never trailed Trump in a single Wisconsin poll. NEVER. She lost because TURNOUT was down. Wisconsin's 2016 turnout was the lowest since 1996.


Donald Trump's presidential victory in Wisconsin, the first time a Republican candidate has won the state's electoral votes since 1984, was the result of a complex shift in voting patterns in counties both large and small. Trump received just over 27,000 more votes than Clinton, out of more than 2.94 million cast overall. Wisconsin's turnout was about 66 percent of all eligible voters, reported the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the state's lowest since 1996.



https://www.wiscontext.org/how-and-where-trump-won-wisconsin-2016

So, how should you use this information? If the polls are largely correct, then it should motivate you to motivate others to get and vote. People are more likely to vote if they feel like they're voting for a winner. Tell your friends and family that the only thing that stands in the way of victory is turnout.

We turnout. We win. End of.
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dem4decades

(11,307 posts)
4. All Democrats, from Progressives to Blue Dogs need to vote the ticket. No excuses.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:05 AM
Sep 2020

Get Trump out of the White House first, then let's sort things out

yellowdogintexas

(22,280 posts)
13. the whole ticket and nothing but the whole ticket!!! Down to the very bottom!
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:07 AM
Sep 2020

In Presidential years, voters have a tendency to vote that top line and stop. We can NOT afford to ever do that but especially in this election year. XZz

Remember that the Republicans and ultimately the Tea Party got their evil grip on everything by electing their minions to city councils and state legislatures etc, then those folks were elected to higher offices and were replaced by more people just like them. One day we woke up and realized we had no power. This should never have happened and I think the party as a whole is now 'woke' enough to prevent it from happening again.

It is our turn (and our obligation) to work from the bottom up as well as expunge the slime in the executive branch. Taking over state legislatures will result in more balanced redistricting, for starters. Remember redistricting is going to happen in 2021 and we need clout in every state. Not to mention the benefit the state(s) will harvest, as well as the deep bench we will be building.

One of the major objectives here in Texas is to flip the Texas House and increase our numbers in the State Senate.

Flipping Congressional and Senate seats (especially the Senate) gives us the power to reverse at least some of the damage done over the past 4 years.

So, Don't Stop At The Top, Vote For Every Democrat! Our first Biden signs here include that statement .

doc03

(35,392 posts)
5. I think it is up to the POC and young people to save the country from
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:19 AM
Sep 2020

Trump. I am a 72 year old white guy, from my view the whites that voted for him last time are all
racists and they will not change. Hillary was right they are deplorables.

saljr1

(273 posts)
6. If my fellow Americans do not turnout in this election,then when?
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:14 AM
Sep 2020

The chaos,and debasing of our country is appalling. This guy is getting crazier and more desperate by the day. He will do anything to hold power. This is why the results of this election has to be overwhelming and leaving no doubt. We have to throw this effing bum out.

yellowdogintexas

(22,280 posts)
15. We are voting by mail, & returning same day. We have 3 weeks of early voting
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:45 AM
Sep 2020

so those ballots will arrive at least 3 weeks ahead of Nov 3

I may hand carry them to the post office OR we will take them to the County Elections Office (our ONE drop box) In Texas if you do that, you have to show ID which prevents someone from dropping off ballots for multiple persons. If you decide to take your ballot to the polls, you will surrender that ballot and vote in person.

Maine-i-acs

(1,501 posts)
9. Now consider voters purged from the rolls and hacking of tabulators, and a 2016 fix is likely
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:22 AM
Sep 2020

Thousands removed from voter rolls:
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2018/10/13417/hundreds-thousands-wisconsin-voters-purged-rolls-2016-general-election
Send a postcard to a voter to verify residence. If they do not return the card (90% do not), they are removed from the voting rolls. These campaigns target Democratic strongholds.

Makes that slim victory in WI, PA, MI questionable.

Who oversees voting machines and voting tabulators in these states?

How many Russian hacking attempts were verified on state voting infrastructure? Most every state had detectable hacking attempts; how many were NOT detected and therefore successful?

"Project veritas" overseen by Chris Kobach has been doing this voter purge across the country. Every voter needs to verify that they are safely on the voter rolls.

yellowdogintexas

(22,280 posts)
14. In Texas the process is reversed. Every 2 years Voter Registration cards are mailed to
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:35 AM
Sep 2020

every registered voter. Alone, this card isn't an ID but it does tell you your Congressional, State Senate, State House etc. district numbers and it is proof of your registration.

If that card is returned to the Elections office (no longer lives here, undeliverable etc), the voter's registration is flagged, and a letter is sent to the voter asking for address update, just in case.

Should that voter come in to vote, the election judge will update the mailing address, the voter casts his vote, and voter will get a new registration card at the new address

However, if voter does not get the address corrected, and that card is returned again, then the voter will be purged on the assumption the voter no longer lives in that county.

Here is the fun part: You can go forever without showing up at the polls and you will not be purged as long as those cards are not returned undeliverable! This happened in my very own house; I kept wondering why my daughter was still on the voter registry when she had not voted here for years. I had just been tossing her card in the trash. So I sent the last one back and an inquiry came - I returned it with an explanation so she should finally be purged. After 12 years in Arizona she is off our rolls.

I have no doubt that there are other means by which a voter may be purged, like the infamous cross check, but at the official level it all revolves around that card being returned undeliverable, and it is totally managed at the county level.

louzke9

(296 posts)
11. FACT!
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:59 AM
Sep 2020

A MISSING vote is still A VOTE. It still has a tangible effect....it COUNTS. A missing vote helps someone win (in 2016, Trump) and someone lose (Clinton). Trump won the electoral votes in four states (Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida and Pennsylvania) because he won more votes. The margin of votes was LESS than the number of MISSING VOTES and third party votes. Elections are won via state elections. Clinton won the popular vote but lost in the four states that put Trump ahead. WE can not let this happen AGAIN! If voters DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS, Trump could get re-elected.

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